{"id":3638,"date":"2010-01-15T07:59:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2010-01-15T07:59:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:59:47","slug":"health-care-favoritism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/health-care-favoritism\/","title":{"rendered":"Health care favoritism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having initially cast aside their usual view that \u201cfrom those to whom much is given, much shall be taken away\u201d in battling the tax on Cadillac health insurance plans, government and private sector unions have now won a five-year exemption from that tax for their members in an extraordinary show of political clout.\u00a0 I have been wondering recently why there hasn\u2019t been a grass-roots revolt against the favoritism shown public sector unions in the various pseudo-stimulus initiatives.\u00a0 If the unions can get away with this patent injustice towards non-unionized workers, the conundrum only deepens.\u00a0 (The print version of the <em>New York Times\u2019<\/em> article on the deal, by Robert Pear and labor reporter Steven Greenhouse, amusingly delays any mention of the union carve-out for four windy paragraphs while extolling the marvels of health \u201creform,\u201d and then initially only mentions it in the vaguest of terms: \u201cThe changes would lessen and delay the impact of the tax on workers.\u201d\u00a0 Um, not all workers.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/15\/health\/policy\/15health.html?hpw\">web version <\/a>of the article does not bury the lede quite as flagrantly.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having initially cast aside their usual view that \u201cfrom those to whom much is given, much shall be taken away\u201d in battling the tax on Cadillac health insurance plans, government and private sector unions have now won a five-year exemption &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/health-care-favoritism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}