2 Responses to “US Ranks 41st In Press Freedom Index Thanks To ‘War On Whistleblowers’. We sinking in tyranny and totalitarianism”

1. Trust
   April 21st, 2016 @ 11:52 pm

   The point of this tax—and much of Obamacare—was to lower the utilization of health care by making people face the true costs of their care. The excise tax attempts to do this by making generous plans more expensive for employers. In turn, this pushes employers to offer higher-deductible plans that make individuals share more of the cost of their own care. This theoretically will contain healthcare costs-a laudable goal.
   However, the excise tax is an odd way of accomplishing this. A better way would have been to just cap the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance. However, that was not politically feasible, especially with strong union opposition. So instead, lawmakers imposed the tax on insurance companies to drive up the price of insurance instead.
   It will be interesting to see if this trend towards lower-cost insurance plan continues, or if employees value high-end insurance plans so much that they are willing to take an even larger hit in their wages to get them.

   https://taxfoundation.org/blog/obamacares-cadillac-tax-working-planned

2. Trust
   April 21st, 2016 @ 11:58 pm

   More Obamacare–the Cadillac tax!

   “Obamacare ‘Cadillac Tax’ Hits Middle Class Hardest: Study

   (Copyright DPC)
   By Nick Tate
   Friday, 11 Mar 2016 3:00 PM

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   The controversial Obamacare provision to tax generous employer-based health benefits will hit middle class families especially hard, while largely sparing wealthy Americans, a new analysis has found.

   As a result, the so-called “Cadillac Tax” amounts to “regressive” tax subsidy that unfairly favors the rich and harms those with incomes between $38,550 and $100,000, according to the study by Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein, professors of health policy at the City University of New York School of Public Health and lecturers in medicine at Harvard Medical School.”

   https://www.newsmax.com/t/health/article/718687

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