Special Deal for Labor Unions in Health Care Bill
14th January 2010
Megan McArdle has the goods.
Presumably, the unions plan to go back and get their exclusion extended every few years. Otherwise, the deal doesn’t make much sense. The ostensible reason for the respite is to allow them to renegotiate new collective bargaining agreements, but in these inflationary times, how many collective bargaining agreements last longer than three years? I could be wrong about that, but unless I am, 2013 is plenty far enough away for most of the unions in question to negotiate better contracts.