On 9/2/09, rick:
Did you note ineligible for Title XVIII' right? TITLE XVIII—HEALTH
INSURANCE FOR THE AGED AND DISABLED
http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title18/1800.htm
you're not going to make me read that whole thing, are you? What do
you think I am? A congressman? ;-)
It's the Medicare and Medicaid Act. HR 3200 is saying that if you're
eligible for Medicare, you're not eligible for the pension health
insurance bailout.
I originally thought you meant the UAW were getting $10B to beef up
the pensioners' cut. Now I think I see that you mean all the
retirees, like IBM who had their contracts unilaterally revoked.
Which is another word for broken. By the employer. Makes me wonder
why we need unions in the first place.
but IBM retirees aren't going to be eligible for this break, are they?
Without this, the union retirement plans will have to revoke their
contracts too. Why save the union pensions and not others?
Why yes they would. Where in Sec 164 do you see anything about a
union? I think I'm beginning to question your source, which is as
polite a way of saying that I won't be drawn into another month long
struggle over 'facts' which turn out to be deliberately misleading
propaganda. Do I need an acronym for that? How about a catchy phrase
instead, something like 'death panel?'
