What the hell is going out there... Part 2.
WASHINGTON — In the heat of the legislative fight over the Affordable Care Act, Obama administration
officials argued that including a steep tax on high-cost health insurance plans would hold down soaring
costs by prompting employers to rein in such plans and force employees to spend more of their own money
on their care.
On Wednesday, that feature, once considered central to Obamacare, was dealt a blow by an unlikely foe: Democrats.
The House voted almost unanimously to repeal the tax, not only a key cost-containment provision in Barack Obama’s
signature health law but also one of the main ways it was supposed to pay for itself.
WASHINGTON — In the heat of the legislative fight over the Affordable Care Act, Obama administration
officials argued that including a steep tax on high-cost health insurance plans would hold down soaring
costs by prompting employers to rein in such plans and force employees to spend more of their own money
on their care.
On Wednesday, that feature, once considered central to Obamacare, was dealt a blow by an unlikely foe: Democrats.
The House voted almost unanimously to repeal the tax, not only a key cost-containment provision in Barack Obama’s
signature health law but also one of the main ways it was supposed to pay for itself.
