Everyone;

Please contact our Senators today and ask them to VOTE NO on the Senate's plan to tax our healthcare benefits. We are fortunate to have health insurance, but we have also sacrificed wages and other benefits in the past to keep this reasonable benefit and now the U.S. Senate wants to penalize us.

This is from the IAFF:

The IAFF has been lobbying against a plan in the U.S. Senate to tax so-called "Cadillac" health insurance plans. This excise tax would assess a tax on high-value insurance plans and would likely affect many IAFF members' plans that cost more -- not because they offer more generous benefits but because of the dangers of the job or other factors that are more costly. 

The IAFF is working to ensure that this excise tax will not be enacted when a final health care bill is signed into law. 

Contact Senator Specter (202) 224-4254 or 453-3010 and Senator Casey (202) 224-6324 or 874-5080.

Thank you,

Dave