The pro-Senate health bill contingent keeps trotting out the example of Switzerland to buttress their arguments.  Here’s a quick recap of why the comparison doesn’t work:  First or all, Switzerland […]

Business columnist and Fortune Senior Editor Allan Sloan just wrote a piece in the Washington Post about the excise tax. It’s smart, cogent, and well-written. (Translation: Wish I’d written it.) […]

Many of us admire the wealth of talent on display in the White House, so it’s disappointing when there is a breakdown in the accuracy or completeness of information being […]

I just put up a piece in The Huffington Post outlining what I consider 10 myths or assumptions that are currently being used to weaken resistance to the current draft […]

That somebody is Kate Pickert, who wrote about the excise tax at TIME’s “Swampland” blog. Editors will be editors, so we can’t necessarily blame her for the piece’s misleading title: […]

I have a piece up on my own blog which challenges numbers-whiz Nate Silver for his takedown of progressives. He doesn’t think they should be fighting for a better health […]

The $149 billion number – the amount of revenue the CBO estimates the excise tax will bring in – has becoming gospel in Washington. But there’s a very good chance […]

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 […]

Kirsten Powers has an editorial at the New York Post attacking the excise tax. “(N)no topic has gotten more ink during the health-care debate than cost,” she observes. “This question […]

Recently the Senate passed Sen. Barbara Mikulski’s Women’s Health Amendment, which requires health insurance companies to provide free mammograms and other preventive health services for women. This was lauded by […]

Bernie Sanders, Al Franken, and Sherrod Brown have introduced a bill in the Senate that would replace the excise tax on higher-cost health plans with a tax on very high-earners. […]

Matt Yglesias is right to skewer a truly terrible idea from Sen. Tom Carper. Sen. Carper wants a health tax based on the rate of increase a health plan experiences […]

A recent poll released today provided the first comprehensive look at the political popularity of the excise tax on higher-cost health plans, and the results should raise grave political concerns […]

We’re summarized some of our content on DailyKos. Stop on by if you have any comments to add. As we told the Kossacks: A lot of folks in Washington like […]

Two new papers published today in Health Affairs could help turn opinion against the excise tax, especially from an academic perspective. Using a combination of analysis and interpretation, six researchers […]

“We’re finding that about half of the large employers we work with will be at or above the (excise tax threshold) limits.” Senior Health Benefits Consultant We promised yesterday to […]

The AFL-CIO has sent out an email blast in support of the campaign to overturn the excise tax on health benefits. The letter is addressed to constituents of Rep. Jerrold […]

Kaiser Health News has summarized some new findings from the Mercer consulting group that are quite compelling. We think they’re so significant they should each be absorbed separately. The first […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]