“It is clear that Big Labor is banking on the probability that all healthcare workers eventually become federal, state, and municipal healthcare employees,” Loos told Factor. That, he said, would make them eligible for involuntary unionization through public-sector unions like AFSCME and the SEIU.
“Obamacare is an SEIU and AFSCME membership ‘net,’” Loos claimed, “designed to eventually capture 21 million forced-dues paying government workers.” New health care jobs created by Obamacare, he said, will eventually be filled by “federal, state, and municipal healthcare employees.”
The Obamacare law, once fully implemented, will dramatically increase the number of health care workers receiving payment for their services through government programs, including Medicaid and so-called “public option” government-run insurance plans.
“The government employee unions can then enlist pro-union state governments to treat these health care workers as ‘government employees,’” Factor told The Daily Caller, “and unionize them just like they unionized the care providers” themselves.
“For every million additional health care workers unionized in the 27 non-right-to-work states,” he told TheDC, “the unions stand to earn $1 billion in dues.”
Factor writes in “Shadowbosses” that Canada’s national health care system has provided an apt example. Heritage Foundation labor economist James Sherk told him that “60 percent of Canadian health care workers and a stunning 80 percent of nurses belong to unions — more than quadruple the levels in America.”
Only 10 percent of them were union members before the advent of socialized medicine in Canada, Factor said.
The Wisconsin victory has shown us that this is a bad idea. But I doubt the Democrats have learned that lesson being ignorant on teh subject of economics. Just another reason to get rid of Obamacare.
Are people going to be forced to join a union under threat of jail or execution or something here? A people dressed in black pajamas going to jump out of a van, kidnap you, and force you to take a job in the nursing industry? Where's the forced part?
bcspace is complaining about a people joining a group who are then subjected to 'controlling' and 'fee paying'......*face palm*
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Comparing the Affordable Health Care Act to Canadian Health Care is comparing apples to oranges. Canadian Health Care is a Single Payer System. The affordable health care act leaves it to the private sector to determine how they are going to deliver the care. The Government cannot compete. The private sector (and Republicans) insisted on that. They saw too much competition as a bad thing.
I find it ironic that the article quotes a Heritage Foundation Economist since the Heritage Foundation floated a individual mandate health insurance plan in 1989.
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Factor writes in “Shadowbosses” that Canada’s national health care system has provided an apt example. Heritage Foundation labor economist James Sherk told him that “60 percent of Canadian health care workers and a stunning 80 percent of nurses belong to unions — more than quadruple the levels in America.”
The Nurses union in the State of California is awful and terrible. The Nurses union in California recently donated as much as one million dollars to Governor Moonbeam's Stupid ass Tax Proposition.