I'm pretty sure the bolded isn't true.
You right Sweetie....it should read 2018
also....the union exemptions are about the reinsurance fees....
the President assured America that no one was getting an exemption– not even labor. On Sept. 11, the last day of the AFL-CIO quadrennial convention was held in Los Angeles.
Here, prominent labor leaders attacked provisions of the health care law, warning that if left intact they would devastate union-backed health plans that were decades in the making. Terry O’Sullivan, the International Union of North America General President, addressed the convention,“We’ll be damned if we’re going to lose our health care plan because of unintended consequences.”
Unions are in an uproar because the Patient Care Act does not allow them to receive premium tax credits under multiemployer union health plans and forces them to pay the reinsurance tax. In a resolution, labor also demanded that the ACA excise tax, reinsurance tax and other taxes to be nullified for collectively bargained plans, union administered plans and other various plans that cover union-represented workers.
Robert Scardelletti, president of the Transportation Communications International Union/International Association of Machinists (TCU/AIM), estimates that under current ACA rules, his union’s multiemployer health fund will have to pay $27 million in taxes. He’s not happy about it.
At the convention, labor said that if their demands weren’t met, then the Affordable Care Act should be repealed.