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By Big Tent Democrat

In an editorial today, the NYTimes claims:

The proposed excise tax on high-cost plans is the most significant measure in either bill to slow the relentless rise in health care spending.

Can someone provide the evidence for this claim? I have never seen anything but assertions. Since an excise tax on health insurance plans has never been implemented to my knowledge, there is actually no evidence to support this claim. There are ARGUMENTS for why this would be the case, but no evidence. This is an experiment. It would work better as one of the pilot programs in the proposals that are being so highly touted. Try it with folks earning over 250,000 a year and see how it works. Then we will see if indeed the excise tax is a "significant measure to slow the relentless rise is health care spending."

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 16, 2010 (boomark / email).