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"Democratic negotiators acceded to union demands for a scaled-back tax on high-end health-insurance plans, exempting union contracts from the tax until 2018, five years beyond the start date for other workers."
This means the difference between $149 billion in tax revenue and $90 billion so the money has to be made up somewhere. And here is what they are considering:
"Negotiators were considering increasing the financial hit on drug makers, nursing homes and medical-device makers, according to people familiar with the discussions."
Now really, all death panels aside, which group of people are most likely to be impacted by pass along costs from increasing the tax to nursing homes, medical device makers and drug makers? Who could it be? Who could it be?
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