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Related: About this forumSanders, top Dems urge repeal of 'Cadillac' tax
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and seven Democratic senators introduced a bill Thursday to repeal ObamaCares so-called Cadillac tax on high-cost healthcare plans.
The bills Democratic cosponsors include heavyweights such as Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is in line to become the chambers top Democrat, as well as Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the chambers longest-serving member. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who leads the Senates ACA Works campaign, has also signed on.
The Democratic presidential candidates newest bill gives momentum to a years-long lobbying campaign by both business leaders and union groups. The Democrats' repeal push puts them in direct odds with President Obama, who has refused to budge on the much-maligned tax.
The move also puts pressure on Sanders' presidential rival Hillary Clinton to declare her position on the tax. She has previously said she is examining the provision but did not make any mention of the tax during a series of speeches this week focused on her healthcare platform.
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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/254842-sanders-top-dems-urge-repeal-of-cadillac-tax
Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)I know many union people
who would suffer under that tax.
They are not wealthy nor millionaires,
just hard working people who carry
a tax burden imposed on them
because millionaires won't pay
their fair share.
Go Bernie!
merrily
(45,251 posts)and there were adverse tax consequences if everyone in the company did not have the same plan. So, the person who worked the copy machines and the messengers had the same coverage as the guys (yes, all male) pulling down almost a million bucks a year. They had the cash to pay a cadillac tax. They also had the ability to go to a cheaper plan, if they wished. The supply clerk had neither.
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)for the tax, see:
http://www.healthaffairs.org/healthpolicybriefs/brief.php?brief_id=99
merrily
(45,251 posts)What makes a lot more sense to me than that argle bargle: They were desperate for money to make Obamacare less costly. Paygo. Taxing "Cadillac plans" was one of the places they found some money.
BTW, are you supporting Bernie Sanders to defeat Hillary Clinton in this primary?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)harder to take their word for it. Even when you search DU for their past posts and read quite a few.
Sometimes, I wonder if they know Bernie's supporters can actually see what they've been posting. And what they haven't been posting.
merrily
(45,251 posts)That someone who voted for ACA rather than leave Americans with no health plan should not be seeking to improve ACA? After all, isn't that what we were told? It was a first step and better than nothing. Even Social Security needed improvement. Blah, blah, blah? So, now that legislators attempt to improve it, we should throw in their faces that they voted for it? Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.
BTW, are you aware that this group is not LBN, or GD or GD: P or the Hillary Group or the Obama Group, but is the only group on the entire board where posters who support Bernie Sanders to defeat Hillary Clinton in the upcoming Democratic Primary can post to each other without having to discuss issues with Democrats who don't share their views?
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merrily
(45,251 posts)tax. So the good news is that you have nothing about which to be annoyed.
You can post in any group you want, as long as you satisfy the SOP of the group in which you are posting. I doubt that is true of this group, though.
See you on other parts of the board maybe.
napi21
(45,806 posts)What will it do to the rest of the ACA if they eliminate it? I don't know the answer. Maybe you do, but I think we should find out before just agreeing with anyone.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)but Obamacare itself should be scrapped for a true universal single payer healthcare system.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)So little wonder how it beats on normal people. We CAN do better. We have to.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Buy Partisan.
napi21
(45,806 posts)Dems gain back control of the House & the Senate AND have a Dem Prez. Until then, Obamacare is better than what we had before.
merrily
(45,251 posts)by reconciliation? Requiring only 50 Senators plus Biden?
Yeah, yeah, I know. Lieberman.
BTW, why are so many of Hillary's supporters posting on this in a group that is restricted to posters who want Bernie Sanders to win the primary?
merrily
(45,251 posts)referring to?
merrily
(45,251 posts)I wonder how often the reverse happens in the Hillary Group? And they "wonder" why the hosts of this group have to ban people.
marym625
(17,997 posts)I know you're joking!
merrily
(45,251 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)You get blocked there just for posting if you're a Sanders supporter. I don't even bother looking anymore.
pa28
(6,145 posts)"Cadillac" means your policy which does what health coverage should do. Pay your medical expenses.
My family now has ever increasing rates and more out of pocket expenses. Close to 5k last year. Single payer Medicare for all is the solution.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)...who STRONGLY OPPOSED the "Cadillac Tax".
Whatever happened to that guy.
He would have made a good President.
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their Promises.
merrily
(45,251 posts)As to everything before Hillary's very most recent evolutions, we're supposed to have amnesia.
Whoever said, "The past is prologue" was a fool, making a tempest in TEApot.
Same for the guy who says "The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior."
We're all brand new now. Move On.
merrily
(45,251 posts)common ground.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Hillary doesn't do common ground. She always tries to take the dominant position, even on a dung heap.
merrily
(45,251 posts)probably find more common ground. ("Senator McCain and I are ready for that 3 a.m. phone call: Senator Obama is not. First time in my life I heard a Democratic primary candidate do something like that to another Democratic primary candidate. And we all know how McCain would likely handle that call. I mean, God forbid our 3 am response be anything but another fucking neocon war.)
Demeter
(85,373 posts)She's the most dangerous candidate in decades.
merrily
(45,251 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)a feature of Obamacare that was controversial in 2009?
That does not sound the least bit false.