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Tables -- washing dishes, waiting on tables, changing beds, you know, you could move them below the 30-hour threshold. so this impacts a lot of union workers. the second thing is that under the affordable care act a lot of these union workers are covered in what are called, you know, in what are called stand-alone plans. these are plans where the employer is actually the self-insurer. those people don't have to pay a new tax on insurance policies, but a lot of union members are not on those kinds of plans. they're in nonprofit plans where the insurance company may actually be run by the union,...
Cobra wasn't subsidized, and if you had somebody at home who was sick or you had a child who got sick, you would suddenly say to yourself well now i see the need. and so part of what we have to do is always say to ourselves there but for the grace of god go i. and have a basic safety net. so that's point number two. point number three is that the way insurance companies have been operating, even if you got health insurance, you don't always know what you got. because what has been increasingly the practice is that if you're not lucky enough to work for a big company that has a big pool, essent...