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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (14762)3/19/2010 10:54:55 AM
From: Alighieri1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Many House Democrats strongly disliked the Senate’s proposed excise tax on high-cost, employer-sponsored insurance policies. In the Senate-passed bill, that provision would have raised $150 billion over 10 years. Mr. Obama and White House officials reached a deal with organized labor groups to delay the implementation and limit the impact of that tax. As a result, the excise tax will raise only $32 billion over 10 years, according to the budget office.

Of course, that meant coming up with $118 billion more elsewhere to plug the hole. Not a problem: to help make up the difference Democrats adjusted a proposed increase in the Medicare payroll tax for individuals earning more than $200,000 a year and couples earning more than $250,000. The tax will now apply to “unearned income” like dividends and interest.

Makes perfect sense...they did NOT manipulate the parameters as conspiracy paranoid theorists would have you believe...they changed the structure by which they pay for the costs.

Al
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