by Richard Eskow | Dec 8, 2009 | Blog
The following appeared at Daily Kos and elsewhere as a roundup of today's activities and posts We need to stop the excise tax on so-called "Cadillac" health plans - a tax that will affect an increasing number of middle-class workers over the next ten years. In the...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 8, 2009 | Blog
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 Senate's proposed excise tax on higher-cost health benefit...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 8, 2009 | Blog
Liberal/Democratic Washington policy thinkers appear close to reaching the consensus view that the Senate's excise tax on higher-cost health plans is a good idea. Here's the problem: The consensus is wrong. The so-called (and misnamed) "Cadillac tax" is unfair and...
