As the fight to shape a final health care bill moves through Congress, working families can help stop the effort to tax their health care benefits by joining millions of fellow workers in the AFL-CIO’s National Call-In Blitz to the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, January 13, 2010.
Call your Representative using the toll-free number 1-877-323-5246. Tell your Representative that you want health care reform that: Does not tax health benefits for working families; requires employers to pay their fair share and maintains a public option to reduce costs. Click here to send an email message to Congress to oppose the tax on health care benefits for working families.
The House is trying to reconcile its version of health care reform with the bill passed in the Senate. The House version does not have a tax on health care benefits, has a public option and stronger language to make employers pay their fair share of health costs. But without a strong protest from working families, many of these provisions could be dropped if the final health care package tilts more toward the Senate version which has the health care tax provision.
Tue. January 12, 2010
When families are struggling to make ends meet and deductables are preumins are going up, we as deregulated employees are not ready to pay an adisional tax on some thing we are all are working hard to lower our cost not raise it we have given up pay raises thru the years for the company to pay for our health care and now we not only pay those hourly premium for our health care also a monthly payment as well and now a tax on top of all that why not let the company pay that tax for up and give them a tax deduction for that. It time for the big boys to share some of those record profits they earned over the last thirty years tat they have that the goverment has allowed them to steal from their employees.last contract they even took our cost of living raises away what\'s next ? While our CEO\'s enjoy the fruits of our labor with out a second though. please stop and help working class people with out a middle class there is no recovery. Thank you