Please Contact Your Senators on Health Care Excise Tax

 Summary:  The current Senate bill includes a proposal to tax health care benefits. Unions are weighing in with Senators regarding our opposition. The tax on healthcare benefits being proposed in the Senate bill is a huge problem for union members and the officers of most National and International Unions have spoken out vehemently against it. We need you to add your voice.

 Our members, like many across the country, are facing enormous problems in this economy.  It is clear the rising cost of health care and insurance is only adding to those problems.  That is why it is so important not to pay for health care reform on the backs of working families.  Unfortunately, the Senate bill in its current form does just that.  The excise tax on health plans in the Senate bill will be passed onto employees in the form of lower benefits or higher premiums.  Additionally, it will discriminate against workers in high-cost states, in industries with older workers and in more dangerous jobs. These workers will be penalized because they have to pay more for the same basic health care we all expect out of a decent plan.

 It is absolutely critical to pass effective health care reform legislation. But union members and our fellow citizens don't need just any reform. We need reform that makes health care more affordable and accessible for everyone without adding to current economic hardships.  That's why we ask you to please call your senators and tell them to help ensure that the final health care legislation isn't funded on the backs of working families through taxes on benefits.

 Please contact your U.S Senators immediately and tell them "NO" on the Excise Tax on Health Care Plans.

 Call your senator at 1-877-323-5246.