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This is strictly anecdotal, but I posted this article on my fb and the headline on twitter, and NONE of the liberal nut cases in my radius responded. In times gone by, I would have never gotten this sarcasm out without some arrogant nitwit insisting I was misrepresenting the facts [by adding two words and two letters]. But, silence ... as if they are thinking about the inescapable irony it is. Could they be?

In one FR thread I noticed someone mention 'if anyone will talk about it." and a response "they don't anymore." Is it a trend? If so, it would be a positive sign, or just maybe a relief that they simply shut up and listen for a few months. I could get used to the silence, at least for the Holidays. ;)

Obamacare Supplemental Health Insurance Tax

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Insurance premiums get the equivalent of the federal gas tax.

The government will collect $11.3 billion from the OSHIT in 2015 and 2016; $13.9 billion in 2017; and $14.3 billion in 2018, a total of $58.8 billion over five years. Thereafter, the tax will be increased subject to premium growth.

“It’s an odd sort of tax,” Burton said. “It’s not at a specific rate, but it raises a specific amount of revenue from insurers who underwrite health insurance outside of the exchanges. You basically have a set amount of money and then it’s allocated among the insurers based on the amount of health insurance premiums they actually wrote.”

The tax is also hidden from consumers. “They won’t see it,” Burton said. “It’s in effect hidden because it’s imposed on the insurance companies, but it’s a cost to them that they have to recover by raising premiums.”

ACA, we had to pass it to see what's in it.

#takeapill

Maybe they all just missed it. :0