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 […]