Also Too, 20 Million Problems

It is characteristic of our leadership to discard policy that works:

For decades, unions have negotiated high quality, affordable health insurance through nonprofit Taft-Hartley plans---one of the few reliable private providers for lower income individuals.

These plans are mutually agreed upon between union members and participating employers and provide insurance to millions of American workers.

In addition to being a long-standing and successful provider, these plans have been models of efficiency, achieving better cost savings than for-profit insurance carriers with medical loss ratios often exceeding 90 percent. That means 90 cents out of every dollar go to patient care.

While embracing policy that, well, doesn't:

Many UFCW members have what are known as multi-employer or Taft-Hartley plans. According to the administration’s analysis of the Affordable Care Act, the law does not provide tax subsidies for the roughly 20 million people covered by the plans.

There's gonna be a lot of unhappy voters next year, and they won't all be Republicans! Perhaps our friends on Team Democrat would consider giving people what they want next time?

---Baron V