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发帖数: 29576 | 1 obamacare搞很多tax还有fee，养了一群官僚机构，美国中产阶级逆来顺受还一大堆人
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New ObamaCare fees coming in 2014
WASHINGTON — Here comes the ObamaCare tax bill.
The cost of President Obama’s massive health-care law will hit Americans in
2014 as new taxes pile up on their insurance premiums and on their income-
tax bills.
Most insurers aren’t advertising the ObamaCare taxes that are added on to
premiums, opting instead to discretely pass them on to customers while
quietly lobbying lawmakers for a break.
But one insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, laid bare the
taxes on its bills with a separate line item for “Affordable Care Act Fees
and Taxes.”
The new taxes on one customer’s bill added up to $23.14 a month, or $277.68
annually, according to Kaiser Health News. It boosted the monthly premium
from $322.26 to $345.40 for that individual.
The new taxes and fees include a 2 percent levy on every health plan, which
is expected to net about $8 billion for the government in 2014 and
increase to $14.3 billion in 2018.
There’s also a $2 fee per policy that goes into a new medical-research
trust fund called the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Insurers pay a 3.5 percent user fee to sell medical plans on the HealthCare.
gov Web site.
ObamaCare supporters argue that federal subsidies for many low-income
Americans will not only cover the taxes, but pay a big chunk of the premiums.
But ObamaCare taxes don’t stop with health-plan premiums.
Americans also will pay hidden taxes, such as the 2.3 percent medical-device
tax that will inflate the cost of items such as pacemakers, stents and
prosthetic limbs.
Those with high out-of-pocket medical expenses also will get smaller income-
tax deductions.
Americans are currently allowed to deduct expenses that exceed 7.5 percent
of their annual income. The threshold jumps to 10 percent under ObamaCare,
costing taxpayers about $15 billion over 10 years.
Then there’s the new Medicare tax.
Under ObamaCare, individual tax filers earning more than $200,000 and
families earning more than $250,000 will pay an added 0.9 percent Medicare
surtax on top of the existing 1.45 percent Medicare payroll tax. They’ll
also pay an extra 3.8 percent Medicare tax on unearned income, such as
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