IAFF and Allies Balk at Tax on Health Plans

Description: IAFF General President Harold A. Schaitberger and Democratic allies of organized labor in the House weighed in strongly against a Senate Finance Committee plan to tax so-called Cadillac health insurance plans to finance a health care overhaul. Warning at a press conference that the Senate Finance proposal is a non-starter, Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., sent a letter signed by 157 House Democrats, including several senior members of the Ways and Means Committee, to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif …