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Lots of the noise is about the financial consequences for people who decline to get coverage and businesses that don't offer their workers an adequate health plan. Some 4 million individuals without insurance are expected to pay about $55 billion over eight years, according to the Congressional Budget Office's estimates. Employers could be dinged an estimated $106 billion for failing to meet the mandate, which starts in 2014.
But that mandate money, whether it's called taxes or penalties, is overwhelmed by other taxes, fees and shrunken tax breaks in the law. These other levies could top $675 billion over the next 10 years, under the CBO's projections of how much revenue the government would lose if the law were repealed.
The biggest chunk is in new taxes on the nation's top 2 percent of earners some $318 billion over a decade.
Other major taxes are aimed at the health care industry, and some of that cost is sure to be passed along to consumers as higher prices.
A rundown of the most significant tax changes and who pays:
Amazing no one cares.
Amazing no one cares.
Amazing no one cares.
We all look forward to RomneyCare.
Amazing no one cares.
It just appears that way to you because we're not terrified of the law.
Obamacare just cut my HSA max in half.
It looks like only the very wealthy will be paying. If you make more than $500,000. profit on the sale of your house you'll be taxed on that. I doubt that will be a burden to most people.
If you are not aware of all the provisions in the liberal's version of health care, maybe you should have somebody explain them to you.
The Alternative Quality Contract, a global payment model put in place by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in 2009, has both curbed costs and improved the quality of care, according to a Harvard Medical School study published today in the journal Health Affairs.
Global payments, a lump sum to cover all the care of a defined group of patients, are viewed by many experts as a cost-effective alternative to the traditional fee-for-service system.
Massachusetts enacted sweeping state health reforms in 2006 considered by many to be a prototype of the 2010 federal health law, and it is now experimenting with equally dramatic measures to rein in health care spending. The AQC is very similar to the Affordable Care Acts Pioneer Accountable Care Organization contracts a part of the Medicare shared-savings program.
We all look forward to RomneyCare.
Who is "we".
All the welfare witches ?
Obamacare just cut my HSA max in half.
Thanks to Obama for making my health care more expensive.
It looks like only the very wealthy will be paying. If you make more than $500,000. profit on the sale of your house you'll be taxed on that. I doubt that will be a burden to most people.
Obamacare just cut my HSA max in half.
What "HSA max"?
Obamacare just cut my HSA max in half.
What was the purpose behind that? I though the damned liar said "if you like the health care plan you have you can keep it."?
