SEIU Drops Medical Coverage for Poor Children

on December 3, 2010 at 11:12 AM

Jenny EriksonSEIU (Service Employees International Union) has spent millions of dollars getting Barack Obama and other Democrats elected. The famously left-wing labor union supported the presidential candidate that was going to pay Peggy Su’s mortgage and put gas in her car.

Unions are all about the little people.

One of Obama’s biggest campaign promises was for health care reform, specifically universal health care. It works so well in Canada, after all. SEIU openly supported Obama in the 2008 Presidential election.

Obama was elected, everyone partied (and left their litter behind), and everyone waited for change to come to America. In one of the few campaign promises that the President has actually kept, he signed into law a bill that would transform our health care system into a nationalized one.

Be careful what you wish for. Since ObamaCare passed last March, small businesses have dropped health care coverage for their employees while big businesses got special exemptions, and drug relabeling has discriminated against women with cancer. Taxes have gone up, and will continue to do so.

The latest atrocity of Obama’s health care law is coverage for children being dropped. SIEU can no longer afford to cover the children of 30,000 low-wage families.

From the Wall Street Journal:

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.

Yet somehow it’s the Republicans that want you to die quickly? Republicans don’t care about taking care of sick children? That is simply not true. Republicans were the ones that fought against a bill that they knew would kill a company’s ability to provide adequate coverage for its employees. SEIU lobbied for the very bill that has now caused them to drop coverage for thousands of poor children.

Who doesn’t care about sick kids now?

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Comments (10)

Facebook comment from Jessica Birch

on Dec 3, 2010 at 12:00 PM

Um, Universal Health Care *DOES* work so well in Canada. lol. The article you linked is propaganda. "slowly but surely collapsing of its own weight, as all socialist systems eventually do", give me a breeeeak. Would you like to receive a bill every time a police officer helps you? Yeah, guess what, your police system is SOCIALIST! Plus, You can walk into my local hospital and wait less than an hour in emergency. These stories of people waiting 5 days to get seen or 3 years for a test are bullshit.

The Canadian health care system has its flaws, sure, but so does any system and the American one has far more. At least we value our citizens enough to guarantee them care without sending them into the poor-house.

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on Dec 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM

If the new health care system isn't working for the states, it's because they're doing it wrong.

No one in Canada's health care is getting dropped. All our children remain fully covered, poor or not.

Americans need to get rid of this Tax-Phobia, and start prioritizing the needs of their people. How can a government do ANYTHING properly without the citizens being willing to help? You just want everything handed to you. "We want universal health care! But fuck extra tax!" yeeahhhhhh that makes a lot of sense, lol.

DebaLa

on Dec 3, 2010 at 12:21 PM

I got great emergency and follow-up health care when traveling to BC Canada a few years ago! I mean, fast, caring and diligent. When they didn't have the specialized machine to properly diagnose me in the rural clinic, I was shipped immediately to the nearest hospital, with arrangements phoned ahead. And the doctors spend time and TALK to you! When I returned to The States, my specialists were very happy with the Canadian doctors' excellent work.

mustbeGRACE

on Dec 3, 2010 at 12:51 PM

The poor American taxpayer..................................

They're having a ball over there in Europe, protesting in the streets because the government is trying to explain to them that there's simply no more money for all the entitlements.

Like children with their hands out perpetually.

Children.

Nonmember comment from nonmember

on Dec 3, 2010 at 1:46 PM

Businesses and doctors complaining about the healthcare bill are greedy and selfish. They are showing exactly how much they care about their employees and patients and in the case of doctors especially, exactly what they are in their field for. Money. The be all end all. If the Republicans are so damn wonderful and concerned about children, why don't they start trying to repeal this healthcare nightmare? Anyone? Oh that's right. They're only concerned with making money too.

Facebook comment from Tiberious Malloy

on Dec 3, 2010 at 2:20 PM

Jessica, I think it's great that you think the system in Canada works so well. I lived in Michigan for years and Canadians flock to Detroit and Ann Arbor to get the medical care that they can't get in Canada. If it's as great in Canada as you say it is, why does this happen? I can't figure it out. Here is an article from the Detroit Free Press that backs up my statements. But I am sure this is probably more propaganda, right? http://www.freep.com/article/20090820/BUSINESS06/908200420/1319/

tayanna2

on Dec 3, 2010 at 2:33 PM

The point of the article wasn't that Canada was so awful, it was that we are paying for a healthcare system that claims to aid low income and uninsurable people - when in fact it does not. Our premiums for our health insurance went up almost 20%! I could switch to the government healthcare when it becomes available, but it will only be a little bit less per month but not cover nearly as much. How is this better? If it doesn't help the poor and makes things worse for the middle class - then who is it helping?

Facebook comment from Nick Kreitman

on Dec 3, 2010 at 3:15 PM

This is a poorly argued piece and I'm not going to bother commenting past your blanket statement on "taxes keep going up." It is supported by a flip hyperlink that contradicts your point entirely. It references extensive tax credits for purchasing health-care that impact the overwhelming number of Americans who are not upper-echelon income makers. The relatively minor medicare surcharge referenced only effects those with a 250,000+ annual income, or the 10% 'snooki' tanning bed surcharge tax....

Facebook comment from Nicki Brown

on Dec 3, 2010 at 3:54 PM

Tiberious Malloy, the joy of the Canadian system is we can afford to flock to the US for treatment because for the most part our government covers the cost of American treatments. Our doctors advocate for us. For sure the Canadian system has problems, what with long waits, lack the necessary doctors and nurses to adequately cover our population, but we don't have thousands of stories of people who are going broke just to live.

As someone who has just been informed that I am now I higher risk pregnancy because of SUA I am grateful that my treatment and extra exams are covered by socialized health care. I don't have to worry that being pregnant is going to devestate my families finances.

PunditMom

on Dec 3, 2010 at 4:31 PM

In case you want the real story --

http://www.1199seiu.org/media/press.cfm?pr_id=1493

Not a good thing that children were dropped, but shouldn't we be asking the question of why insurance premiums have all of a sudden risen so much at this point in time? Before the full impact of the health care law goes into effect?