If you know what's good for you, you'll treat my thugs special...
The Obama administration is being accused of giving labor groups special treatment under the law after formally proposing a change that could exempt union health plans from a pesky ObamaCare fee.
Unions are now experiencing the ugly reality of this law, and they want out.
Indeed, the AFL-CIO fought against what is known as the "reinsurance fee" in the Affordable Care Act. The fee would kick in next year and is meant to raise $25 billion over three years to help pay for the cost of people with pre-existing conditions signing up for coverage through the Obamacare exchanges.
The change is clearly aimed at unions, particularly after labor leaders made a high-profile push to extract some relief from the health care law.
Richard Trumka, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations president and other labor leaders met with President Obama and Vice President Biden at the White House in September, as part of a bid to win additional health care subsidies for their workers.
The administration determined it could not give them any more subsidies, but later made clear it would look at providing relief from the so-called reinsurance fee.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/26/administration-accused-giving-unions-special-treatment-with-exemption-from/