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One of the signature provisions of the Affordable Care Act is on the chopping block. And it’s largely due to President Barack Obama’s fellow Democrats.
Congressional negotiators are close to agreement on a sweeping budget deal that would keep the government funded through next September. One of the provisions included in the deal is “likely” to be a two-year delay in the implementation of the “Cadillac tax,” according to a senior Democratic aide.
A delay of the tax, which isn’t scheduled to be implemented until 2018 anyway, wouldn’t necessarily represent a threat to the law itself. Coverage expansion, both through federal and state-based insurance marketplaces, and through the federal Medicaid program, could go on without the tax.
