{"id":17238,"date":"2013-02-16T19:06:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T00:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17238"},"modified":"2013-02-16T19:06:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T00:06:56","slug":"obamacare%e2%80%99s-most-expensive-tax-flies-under-the-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17238\/obamacare%e2%80%99s-most-expensive-tax-flies-under-the-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare\u2019s Most Expensive Tax Flies Under the Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahip.org\/News\/Press-Room\/2013\/AHIP-Supports-Bipartisan-Legislation-to-Repeal-the-ACA%E2%80%99s-Health-Insurance-Tax.aspx \" target=\"_blank\">America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans<\/a> (AHIP), ObamaCare\u2019s health insurance tax needs to be repealed as soon as possible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting      next year the ACA imposes a new $100 billion tax on health      insurance.\u00a0 The tax will start at $8 billion in 2014, increasing to      $14.3 billion in 2018, and will continue to increase each year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The health      insurance tax is larger than the device tax and the prescription drug tax <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">combined<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The      health insurance tax will increase costs for individuals and families      purchasing coverage on their own, small businesses, seniors and people      with disabilities enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, and state      Medicaid managed care plans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The      health insurance tax is far greater than the minimum penalty for those who      choose not to buy health insurance \u2013 further incentivizing young, healthy      people to forgo purchasing insurance until they need medical care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The health insurance tax is just one of twenty-one new taxes imposed by ObamaCare on the health industry and its consumers.\u00a0 Thankfully, there is already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/realspin\/2013\/02\/15\/the-unsung-but-massive-obamacare-sales-tax-increase-that-is-on-the-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">bipartisan legislation<\/a> filed in the House of Representatives to repeal this monstrosity, but unless there is a major breakthrough to convince liberals how bad ObamaCare will hamper health care, it looks unlikely to become law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), ObamaCare\u2019s health insurance tax needs to be repealed as soon as possible: Starting next year the ACA imposes a new $100 billion tax on health insurance.\u00a0 The tax will start at $8 billion in 2014, increasing to $14.3 billion in 2018, and will continue to increase each year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3308,1829,35,1001,105],"class_list":["post-17238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-repeal","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17241,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238\/revisions\/17241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}