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ObamaCare: Unions Get Better Grandfathers
ObamaCare appears to have one grandfathered standard for labor unions and another standard for everyone else.

Unions that had a health plan under a collective bargaining agreement by March 23, 2010, can switch insurers as long as the collective bargaining deal is in effect and not forfeit the grandfathered exemptions from many ObamaCare provisions. But anyone else — large business, small business, individual — who switches carriers loses their grandfathered status.

IBD reported in Monday’s issue that the administration estimates that most employers’ health plans would lose their grandfathered status under draft regulations. The government has now officially released those regulations (pdf).

But unions don’t have to follow the same rules...