*Michelle Malkin's*latest column
<http://michellemalkin.com/2010/12/01/the-littlest-victims-of-obamacare/>("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 toThe
Wall Street Journal
<http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/11/20/union-drops-health-coverage-for-workers-children/>
... (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
<http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/11/health-care-union-drops-coverage-for-children/67248/>.
Imagine that.
That's really embarrassing to the statists and their union sympathizers,
which probably explains why searches atthe Associated Press
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/search.hosted.ap.org/wireCoreTool/Search?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&query=1199>andthe
New York Times
<http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=1199&d=&o=&v=&c=&n=10&dp=0&daterange=full&sort=newest>on
"1199? return no relevant results.
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