K Street Files: Labor Pains

• By Matthew Murray, Anna Palmer and Kate Ackley
• Roll Call Staff
• Sept. 14, 2009, Midnight

President Barack Obama rattled organized labor last week during his speech to a joint session of Congress. In making his case for overhauling the nation’s health care system, Obama proposed charging “insurance companies a fee for their most expensive policies, which will encourage them to provide greater value for the money.”