Hello?
Is anyone listening? Anyone??
This is from a Democratic Senator, folks.
It is "buried" in an ABC News blog. Why?
Dem Senator Warns of 'Big, Big Tax' on Middle Class in Baucus Bill
ABC News' Teddy Davis reports:
It's not every day that you hear a Democratic senator charge that a fellow Democrat is proposing to raise taxes on the middle class, but that is what happened on Tuesday when Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., ripped into the health-care bill developed by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mt., the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
The Baucus proposal would impose, starting in 2013, a 35 percent excise tax on insurance companies for "high-cost plans" -- defined as those above $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for family plans.
Health economists believe a tax on high-priced benefits could help slow the growth of health costs by making consumers more sensitive to prices.
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