Vermont GOP: Fighting for Working Teachers

The Vermont Republican Party is actually fighting!

They are even championing the teachers in their own state.

They face double-digit health insurance increases, but just like California, the working people of Vermont are facing high costs of living, including housing costs.

Can they really suffer another set of cost increases on concerns like health insurance?

Check what the liberal Democrats have done to the working educators of their state, and what Govenror Phil Scott wanted to do for them:

ICYMI: Thanks to Liberal Lawmakers & Union Bosses, VT Teachers Face Double-Digit Health Insurance Rate Hikes Teachers & Taxpayers Would Have Saved Millions Under Gov. Scott’s Plan Berlin, VT—The Vermont Education Health Initiative (VEHI) has announced that school employees will face monthly premium increases ranging from 6.4% to 17.2% — in large part due to far-left lawmakers and the NEA’s drastic efforts to kill Governor Scott’s education health care savings plan. Under Governor Scott’s VEHI plan, health care contracts for educators would have been negotiated at the state level; leveraging a unique opportunity to, in part, avoid the“Cadillac” tax on insurance plans. Not only would this proposal have achieved savings, but would have simplified contract negotiations, avoided cuts to school programing, and protected collective bargaining rights. The Governor’s VEHI plan would have achieved up to $75 million in annual savings; $50 million of which would have been used to ensure that teachers’ health insurance costs remained the same, while up to $26 million annually would have been returned to taxpayers in the form of property tax savings. The proposal had the support of bipartisan lawmakers, the Vermont School Boards Association and the Vermont Superintendents Association. Unfortunately, far-left lawmakers like Lt. Governor David Zuckerman, Speaker Mitzi Johnson, President Pro-Tem Tim Ashe, along with NEA union bosses killed the Governor’s plan for the current fiscal year. Now, the very same educators who left-wing elitists in the State House were “protecting” now face double-digit premium increases. Under Governor Scott’s plan, they would have been protected from rate increases while $26 million would be returned to taxpayers. At the end of the day, these union bosses and lawmakers didn’t protect educators as they claimed they would. Instead, they acted AGAINST the interest of educators and promoted their own political ends through partisan fear-mongering and a broad misinformation campaign. As a result, teachers, students and taxpayers will suffer. Now thanks to the unions and far-left lawmakers in Montpelier, teachers face up to 17.2% in premium hikes, and property taxpayers will receive significantly less in savings than the $26 million they would have received under Governor Scott’s plan. So the next time you enter the voting booth, remember the empty promises and self-interested efforts made by union bosses and liberal lawmakers.

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Teachers, no matter what their background or the political affiliation, should rethink the Democratic and Progressive dominance in Montpelier.

How much longer are the teachers going to allow politics to get in their way of their championed prosperity? The people of Vermont are hurting. The job opportunities are shrinking fast. Most young Vermonters are moving out of state. The New York City transplants are ruining this once very Republican state, in which progressives and conservatives had their own fight--sadly the progressives won, and the Democratic Party took over afterwards.

Trump To Issue Health Care Reform Executive Order

Rumors of this latest executive order flooded the weekend news.

Can President Trump issue an order to allow insurance companies to sell their products and services across state lines?

I want him to do that, because I want that policy to advance as soon as possible. However, the last thing that I want is another government in which the chief executive runs rough-shod over Congress.

A right-wing version of executive overreach will not bode well for our country or for our political culture.

One source informed me that this move would not be a bad thing at all. The more I thikn about it, if the press and the Democratic Party wanted to sue him over this proposed executive order, it would finally bring this issue before a federal court, who in turn can decide if Congress ever had the right to restrict the sale of health insurance plans across state lines in the first place.

Trump preparing executive order to let Americans purchase healthinsurance across state lines

President Trump is preparing an executive order to allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines, a reform conservatives have long championed as a way to bring costs down and stir greater competition in the national marketplace.

This reform will without a doubt bring down health care costs. There is no reason to prevent people from buying health insurance of all varieties from different markets. Why was this arbitrary rule put in place in the first place?

The executive action gives the White House a chance to follow through on at least one promise related to healthcare reform, after Senate Republicans' second attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare failed this week. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul first mentioned the action during a TV appearance Wednesday morning, saying Trump was considering taking matters into his own hands.

Why not? The Congress had seven years--seven!--to get their act together on this matter.

They probably did not expect the Republican nominee to win the White House, but that is not an excuse. The House of Representatives voted 50 times on legislation to repeal Obamacare. Why did they decide not to introduce the same piece of legislation?

"I think there's going to be big news from the White House in the next week or two, something they can do on their own," Paul told MSNBC, adding that Trump "can legalize on his own the ability of individuals to join a group or a health association across state lines and buy insurance."

Another source, who works heavily in the insurance industry, informed me that the President has the legal authority to pursue this measure because the Affordable Care Act granted him the authority to do so!

A Senate GOP source told the Washington Examiner the executive action is considered "a done deal" and likely to be announced "in the next few weeks."

A third source confirmed for me that move would be a great idea. "Have you seen anything from the President that would suggest he would do something illegal?"

No, I have not.

Trump later confirmed to reporters he is likely to issue an order permitting "people to go out across state lines, do lots of things, and buy their own healthcare."

What else have American citizens been precluding from doing because of arbitrary restrictions on interstate commerce? That should be interesting to look into. Can individual consumers purchase different types of medications? What about firearms?

The president described the forthcoming executive action as "very major," adding he also intends to spend the next few months negotiating with Democrats on a bipartisan healthcare bill.

Hmm.

Paul said he has discussed the proposal with the president and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta on "multiple occasions" while the Senate was focused on advancing the Graham-Cassidy bill, which was pulled from a vote on Tuesday.