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Obamacare also added an extra tax on the best health insurance. The problem when no one has to pay anything is that people don't care about price. > an annual
by rb808 7y ago
Obamacare also added an extra tax on the best health insurance. The problem when no one has to pay anything is that people don't care about price.
> an annual 40% excise tax on plans with annual premiums exceeding $10,800 for individuals or $29,500 for a family starting in 2020 (delayed further)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_insurance_plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_insurance_plan
- tptacek 7y agoThis has nothing to do with HDHPs. (Additionally: the tax was delayed to 2022).
- smacktoward 7y ago> The problem when no one has to pay anything is that people don't care about price. And yet somehow the U.S., where we expect people to pay for their health care, spends twice as much per capita on health care as the average industrialized country: https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0006_health-care-oecd https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0006_health-care-oecd