re: #87 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Oh, okay. So the timing is simply coincidence. I’ll buy that. They’ve been negotiating this for a while.

So, it was going to hit in 2013 now it will hit in 2018?

I don’t disagree that they are going to have to raise taxes to pay for Healthcare reform. How many people were removed from the pool with this deal?

So, will the people paying have to pay even more? If not, where they gonna get the money that the unions artfully dodged?

Good questions. I’ve just been skimming the morning news and haven’t seen any analysis of the overall meaning. I heard one NPR report saying it was a $60B (?…I was half asleep making coffee, explaninging HIV to my 11 year old who has a health test today, but I think that’s what I heard) gift to the Unions and of course, that money is going to have to be accounted for somewhere.

Which is not good, but not quite as sexy as the tax being eliminated for unions in the dead of night.