Caddy Tax Opponents Say Tweaking Not Enough, Strive For Full Repeal

Stakeholders working to fully repeal the 40 percent tax on high-cost health plans, known as the Cadillac tax, say they appreciate the administration's effort to alter the design of the tax, but continue to argue that the levy should instead be fully wiped from the books. Wednesday, White House economists Jason Furman and Matthew Fiedler penned a piece in the New England Journal of Medicine defending the tax as a force for holding down health costs, but also revealing that...