Miners health care and pensions stat : The Atlantic

Miners are not the only group that is in danger of losing health care and pensions as their employers go bankrupt. This was also the position of then-Secretary Elizabeth Dole in 1989, when she convened a commission to look into coal miners' benefits. Congress has, however, stepped in to bail out the miners' health fund before. Why is it fair that you preserved 100 percent of coal miners' benefits?'" argues Rachel Greszler, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. "Historically, the reason for congressional support for coal miners has been a recognition that they have contributed so much to the prosperity of American economy.




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Feeling pressure to deliver results, Trump wants to revive a troubled health care measure from House Republicans to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. The payments are a critical subsidy and the subject of a lawsuit by House Republicans. Democratic support will be needed to pass the spending measure and Republicans fear taking the blame if the government shuts down on their watch. But negotiations on the spending measure, a huge pile of leftover business from last year that includes the budgets of almost every federal agency, have hit a rough patch. Negotiations have faltered because of disputes over the border wall and health law subsidies to help low-income people afford health insurance.


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