When we retire, most of us have to go on Medicare because our employers do not provide health care insurance for their retirees and though we don’t have the coverage, we will be footing the bill for the auto worker unions to continue providing health care to their retirees:
One reason the public so distrusts the health care plan being considered by Congress is that so many troublesome details keep bubbling out of the massive legislation.
The latest example is the $10 billion taxpayers will be asked to shell out to prop up the United Auto Workers’ retiree health insurance program.
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In effect, it would ask every taxpayer, regardless of whether they’ll have health insurance coverage themselves after they retire — and most won’t — to chip in to maintain the UAW’s coverage, which even after the union’s givebacks is still better than what the average American worker receives.
This is after we’ve already given them the U.S. auto industry, why should we keep supporting them?
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