The Obamacare “Cadillac tax” won’t take effect until 2018, but lawmakers from both parties are concerned the assessment could endanger tax-free flexible health spending and are calling for it to be junked.
“It’s a death knell for them,” Rich Stover, a healthcare actuary and principal at Buck Consultants, told Politico. “If the Cadillac tax doesn’t change, FSAs will go away very quickly.”
The tax may be one of the first items to cross a new president’s desk after he or she takes office in 2017, and already, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has promised to kill the tax. Frontrunner Hillary Clinton has said she is open to changing it, telling the American Federation of Teachers she is worried “that it may create an incentive to substantially lower the value of the benefits package and shift more and more costs to consumers.”
Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller, who is working on legislation on the the issue, said the the tax is one way Obamacare continues to “overpromise and under deliver.”
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