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• A Respected Actuary Says the Excise Tax Is Unfair, Wont Work

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 670
  Nothing brings the readers a-runnin like the word "actuary" in a headline - especially at holiday time! Well, maybe not ... but this is important: An actuary with the respected Milliman firm has analyzed the excise tax and come to some striking conclusions. The tax may "sound reasonable," he says, but will have ...
  6 hours ago

• Were Not Switzerland ...

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 670
  ... and the excise tax would make the difference between our two countries even greater. The people who want the current Senate bill accepted as is keep trotting out the Swiss example to buttress their arguments.  Heres why that argument doesnt work: First or all, Switzerland is a wealthier country: OECD figures ...
  5 days ago

• Cadillac Tax in Health Plan Would Hit Middle Class Hard

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 785
  Filed under: Barack Obama , Health Care , Taxes , The Capitolist Jim Huber, 59, calls himself "a union dirt guy." He makes a base salary of $42,000 per year as an electrician in the same Maryland steel mill where his father worked, where he has worked for 41 years, and where his son now works, too. He drives a ...
  5 days ago

• Somebody at TIME Hasnt Done Their Homework

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 670
  That somebody is Kate Pickert, who wrote about the excise tax at TIMEs "Swampland" blog. Editors will be editors, so we cant necessarily blame her for the pieces misleading title: " Who Should Pay for Health Care Reform - the Rich or the Richly Insured?" But she calls the plans affected "generous." If she had ...
  1 week ago

• Who Should Pay for Health Care Reform - the Rich or the Richly Insured?

  
  Swampland — Authority: 723
  Senators Sherrod Brown, Bernie Sanders and Al Franken just introduced an amendment to the Senate health reform legislation that will make the unions happy. They proposed eliminating the bills tax on so-called “Cadillac health plans” and replacing it with a new tax on immensely rich Americans. The new tax would be ...
  1 week ago

• An Overlooked Number: How Overstated Is That CBO Estimate of $149 Million in Excise Tax Revenue?

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 670
  The $149 million number - the amount of revenue the CBO estimates the excise tax will bring in - has becoming gospel in Washington. But theres a very good chance the number is overstated, possibly by tens of millions of dollars, and the mistake seems to have been completely overlooked. Heres how it happened: In its ...
  1 week ago

• The Front Line: Senate and House Anti-Tax Fighters

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 670
  The battle to resist the excise tax continue, with a front line of resistance forming in the House and Senate. Efforts include the movement to drum up support for the Sanders-Franken-Brown Amendment, which replaces it with a high-earner tax similar to that contained in the House health reform bill. The Amendments ...
  1 week ago

• Blowback: New Evidence The Health Tax Is Unfair, Unwise ... and Could Be Political Suicide

  
  Night Light — Authority: 461
    First they came for the Cadillac plans and I didnt speak out, because I dont have a Cadillac ... A flood of new information has been released in the last severaldays which demonstrates that the proposed excise tax on high-costemployer health plans is unfair, wont accomplish its purported goals,and -- perhaps ...
  1 week ago

• I Am a Death Panelist. I Am Not the Problem.

  
  Economix — Authority: 728
  An economist proposes four ways to control health care costs without resorting to having the government dictate who gets what treatments.
  1 week ago

• Federal Workers Would Be Hard-Hit By the Middle-Class Health Tax

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 670
  A quartet of union leaders was joined on a press conference call today by Rep. Gerald Connolly of Virginia, to present new data which demonstrates that Federal workers covered by FEHBP would-be hard hit by the Senates proposed excise tax on higher-cost health benefit plans. Report findings indicate that single ...
  2 weeks ago

• The More You Like Your Health Plan, the Less Likely You Will be Able to Keep It

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 482
  Two-thirds of employers would raise deductibles, change insurers or scale back coverage to avoid the so-called Cadillac tax on high-cost benefits proposed in the Senate Democrats’ health care bill, a survey to be released Thursday by consulting firm Mercer says… The excise tax — which is placed on insurers, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tax on high-cost health plans is to strip down employer-provided health coverage, not raise revenue

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 129
  As this and another recent NY Times piece explain, the Obama administration demands four cornerstones of healthcare reform: (1) a Medicare cost-containment Commission, (2) taxing high-cost private insurance, (3) reform of medical payment incentives, and (4) deficit reduction.  Each of these cornerstones is designed ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cadillacs and Health

  
  Lemur King's Folly — Authority: 125
  Apparently now your government sees fit to tax you in a higher rate bracket if they decide that you have a “cadillac” health plan.  Guess what?Your president thinks so, too.On Sunday, President Obama said he saw the need to protect union members, but he also defended the tax. “I do think that giving a ...
  3 weeks ago

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