Michelle Malkin’s latest column (“The Littlest Victims of ObamaCare”) is, as usual, a must-read, this time especially for a news tidbit that has been mostly ignored by the establishment press:
Late last month, the Service Employees International Union informed dues-paying members of its behemoth 1199 affiliate in New York that it was dropping its health care coverage for children. That’s right. A radical leftist union, not an evil Republican corporation, is abandoning the young ‘uns to cut costs.
More than 30,000 low-wage families will be affected, according to The Wall Street Journal
… (This is happening because) “…(N)ew federal health-care reform legislation requires plans with dependent coverage to expand that coverage up to age 26,” (SEIU 1199 benefits manager Mitra) Behroozi explained in an Oct. 22 letter to members. “Our limited resources are already stretched as far as possible, and meeting this new requirement would be financially impossible.”
Oh, by the way, SEIU 1199 is a union of … (wait for it) … health care workers. Imagine that.
That’s really embarrassing to the statists and their union sympathizers, which probably explains why searches atthe Associated Press and the New York Times on “1199″ return no relevant results.
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