Everybody pays, comrades:
All Americans who bought health insurance policies this year – not just those enrolled in Obamacare – face a 41 percent increase in excise taxes because of hidden fees contained in an obscure section of the Affordable Care Act, according to an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Virtually everyone who pays for health care insurance this year will be affected by the tax. The little-known tax was imposed on all consumers regardless of whether they obtained their insurance through Obamacare or through their employer or as individuals in the private market.
This year the tax will cost individuals more than $500 in extra premiums according to one actuarial estimate. Families who purchased insurance will see their premiums go up by more than $700.
The new tax also hits senior citizens who rely on Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage. It will land on the nation’s poor who depend upon Medicaid-managed care programs.
I don’t seem to recall Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, or Barack Obama doing a whole lot of bragging about this part of the Totally Settled Law of the Land™ — do you?
The important thing, as ever, remains getting the money to Washington. It doesn’t really matter how — taxes, fees, penalties, whatever. But spoils can’t be divvied up until they’ve been collected, and ♡bamaCare!!! is an unusually effective collector of spoils.
You’ll see what I mean in this next bit:
Over the next decade, consumers will pay more than $145 billion for the tax, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The levy will continue to go up each and every year into the future.
The tax was buried by congressional authors in section 9010 of the law and was envisioned as a way to raise future funds to pay for Obamacare.
We all work for the Glorious State now, comrades.
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