ObamaCare — the hidden disasters

Whether it was in front of Congress or at a town hall in Montana, President Obama assured the American people that Obama-Care would cut medical costs and make it possible for everyone to have health insurance.

As time goes on and we see more of the entitlement health care mandates going into effect, I’m more convinced that ObamaCare will be a failure and an additional burden to many taxpayers.

Just look at the latest example of the plan’s missteps. In November, one of the largest affiliates of the Service Employees International Union, New York’s 1199 — the health care workers’ union — informed its members that it will no longer be able to provide health care coverage to their children. It doesn’t matter how much these employees are forced to pay in union dues, their children are out of luck.

As a result of the Affordable Care Act, the mandate that expanded coverage for young adults and allowed them to continue as dependents on a parent’s plan until they reached age 26, the children of approximately 30,000 low-income 1199 New York-based workers will lose their insurance. This is truly disheartening.

Mitra Behroozi, the 1199 benefits manager, said of the situation, “Our limited resources are already stretched as far as possible, and meeting this new requirement would be financially impossible.”

What’s ironic here is that the SEIU is one of the most politically left-of-center unions in the nation. It spent $60 million to help elect Obama and millions more during the recent election to make sure the politicians who voted for health care reform stayed in office.

The SEIU was always one of the first to offer its outspoken support at rallies and in the media when the bill was being debated. Isn’t it ironic that now they’re the same people who can’t afford health care? Maybe if they hadn’t spent so much on campaign donations, they could still afford to cover more than 6,000 of their employees’ children who are now forced to go without health care.