Baucus Bill Faces Union Opposition

Unless it includes a Medicare-for-all type system, the healthcare reform bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee will face stiff opposition by 30 American labor unions.

 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Unless it includes a Medicare-for-all type system, the healthcare reform bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee will face stiff opposition by 30 American labor unions.

What is known as the Baucus Bill, named after the chairman of the committee, would also tax expensive healthcare policies, force employers to cover workers, and make insurance companies cover more people.

This bill is to join with liberal versions, according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and brought to a full Senate vote by the end of the month.

The unions said through a lobbyist that they planned to run ads in newspapers voicing their opposition to the plan should it not have a government-run healthcare system.

The ad sponsored by the AFL-CIO and the Communications Workers of America, among others, stated, “Real health care reform and nothing less.”