{"id":3180,"date":"2013-08-30T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2013-08-30T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:36:12","slug":"white-house-considers-awarding-obamacare-subsidies-intended-for-the-uninsured-to-labor-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/08\/30\/white-house-considers-awarding-obamacare-subsidies-intended-for-the-uninsured-to-labor-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Considers Awarding Obamacare Subsidies, Intended For The Uninsured, To Labor Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers with employer-sponsored coverage don\u2019t qualify for subsidized coverage on Obamacare\u2019s insurance exchanges. Those subsidies are designed for low-income people who aren\u2019t offered coverage from their employers, and have to shop for insurance on their own. But the labor union leaders want those subsidies to also apply to their members with employer-sponsored coverage, even though they already get those benefits tax-free due to the employer tax exclusion for health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Now, according to Rachana Dixit of InsideHealthPolicy, the administration is \u201cworking on regulations to address the issue\u201d that people covered under Taft-Hartley plans aren\u2019t eligible for subsidies. But it\u2019s not an \u201cissue\u201d in the sense of being a glitch or a mistake; union leaders are seeking special treatment, and additional taxpayer subsidies, that other participants in employer-sponsored coverage don\u2019t get.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130830-133338\">White House Considers Awarding Obamacare Subsidies, Intended For The Uninsured, To Labor Unions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers with employer-sponsored coverage don\u2019t qualify for subsidized coverage on Obamacare\u2019s insurance exchanges. Those subsidies are designed for low-income people who aren\u2019t offered coverage from their employers, and have to shop for insurance on their own. But the labor union leaders want those subsidies to also apply to their members with employer-sponsored coverage, even though they already get those benefits tax-free due to the employer tax exclusion for health insurance. Now, according to Rachana Dixit of InsideHealthPolicy, the administration is \u201cworking on regulations to address the issue\u201d that people covered under Taft-Hartley plans aren\u2019t eligible for subsidies. But it\u2019s not an \u201cissue\u201d in the sense of being a glitch or a mistake; union leaders are seeking special treatment, and additional taxpayer subsidies, that other participants in employer-sponsored coverage don\u2019t get. via White House Considers Awarding Obamacare Subsidies, Intended For The Uninsured, To Labor Unions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1252],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}