Well, this is ironic—a polite word. The SEIU serve as the shock troops for the Obama Administration and other of similar political persuasion. It was sure involved in stuffing Obamacare down the collective throat. But now, New York’s SEIU will no longer insure the children of its lowest paid members—in part because of Obamacare! From the story:
One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants, union officials said. The union blamed financial problems it said were caused by the state’s health department and new national health-insurance requirements...
The union fund faced a “dramatic shortfall” between what employers contributed to the fund and the premiums charged by its insurance provider, Fidelis Care, according to Mitra Behroozi, executive director of benefit and pension funds for 1199SEIU. The union fund pools contributions from several home-care agencies and then buys insurance from Fidelis. “In addition, new federal health-care reform legislation requires plans with dependent coverage to expand that coverage up to age 26,” Behroozi wrote in a letter to members Oct. 22. “Our limited resources are already stretched as far as possible, and meeting this new requirement would be financially impossible.”
The “age 26” clause was intended to buy support from the middle class (as if we all want a free lunch), which (intended or not) continues America’s ongoing infantilization. But it turns out that all of this maneuvering and special pleading to gain support hurt those Obamacare supporters claim to care about the most.
Obamacare’s folly was to promise it could require insurance companies to provide increased coverage for less money. But that’s not how real life works. What a debacle.
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