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What Does Health Care Reform Do For Me? And When?
News
March 25, 2010
1. Children can continue to be covered by their parents' health insurance until their 26th birthday, instead of being forced off the plan by age 19. When? IN SIX MONTHS.
2. Insurance companies cannot exclude children under age 19 from health care coverage because of pre-existing conditions. When? IN SIX MONTHS.
CWA: House Moves Forward to Repair Broken Health Care System
Press Release
This legislation is an important opportunity to repair America's broken health care system. After decades of working for quality health care for all, this bill moves us forward and provides a framework for future improvements.
"Health Care Can't Wait"
News
March 11, 2010
Thousands of union members and health care activists rallied outside a DC hotel to put the health insurance industry execs meeting inside on notice: "we'll do whatever it takes to get real health care reform."
Q & A: Can state governments just legislate pension changes?
News
February 26, 2010
A member asks: How are these state governments able to legislate changes to vesting schedules and formula calculations without someone challenging in a federal tax court hearing on defined benefit plan qualifications? Bob Patrician, a CWA research economist, answers.
UC Berkeley: Health Care Excise Tax Mainly Would Hit Non-Union Workers
News
February 18, 2010
A new study by the University of California's Berkeley Labor Center shows that non-union members would be equally hit by a health care excise tax.