SEIU Drops Health Insurance Coverage for Children: Obamacare Union Doesn't Care About the Children

Their purple t-shirts stood outside of town hall meetings like sentries, prepared to attack anybody who got in the way of Obamacare. Everyone deserves to be covered was the message of the SEIU during the healthcare debate, but apparently they don't believe that within their own ranks. The SEIU will no longer cover the children of their members with health insurance.

From the Wall Street Journal:

One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants, union officials said. The union blamed financial problems it said were caused by the state’s health department and new national health-insurance requirements.

The fund is administered by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. Union officials said the state compelled the fund to start buying coverage from a third party, which increased premiums by 60%. State health officials denied forcing the union fund to make the switch, saying the fund had been struggling financially even before the switch to third-party coverage.

The fund informed its members late last month that their dependents will no longer be covered as of Jan. 1, 2011. Currently about 6,000 children are covered by the benefit fund, some until age 23.