Fury Over Backroom Deal

FOXNews.com, 1/15/2010 - Democrats Hammered for 'Back-Room' Deal With Unions on Health Care: In pushing a giant step closer to a health care reform deal, Democratic leaders are once again drawing fire from their critics for extending special treatment to an interest group in exchange for its support of the bill. [Snip] Under the deal, if it becomes law, union workers will be shielded from the 40 percent tax for five years -- until 2018. The threshold for the tax also was raised so that it will kick in for plans worth $24,000 instead of $23,000. And dental and vision coverage will not count toward that threshold. ∴ But what about everybody else? Read more at FOX...

AFP BLOG, 1/15/2010 by Tim Phillips - Last night in closed-door secret negotiations, President Obama cut a sweetheart deal with the big labor unions to exempt them from taxes that this health care takeover will levy on millions of Americans. ∴ In all the years I’ve been in the political world, I’ve never seen a deal this brazen, this outrageous – and of course they did it in secret. Read more at Americans for Prosperity...