Obamacare

The House passed, 419-6, legislation Wednesday to repeal the so-called Cadillac tax, pleasing health insurers, unions and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers who have long pushed to scrap the levy. The measure would permanently repeal the 40% excise tax on h…

There may only be one source of bipartisan agreement when it comes to the Affordable Care Act — opposition to its revenues and cost-control measures. Nothing checks both of those boxes quite as effectively as the law's "Cadillac tax" — which is now…

Republicans and Democrats came together Wednesday to perform an act rarely seen on Capitol Hill: voting to repeal part of Obamacare. The legislation, the Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act, passed easily via a procedural process meant to expedite u…

Even some liberal economists, backed by the unions, are urging repeal. The Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research group, argued ahead of the vote on Wednesday that health care costs are already decelerating, so the tax is unnecessary both to pay for th…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The House is widely expected to vote Wednesday to finally kill the so-called Cadillac tax. Whether the Senate will follow is less clear, but the overall sentiment isnt: The excise tax on high-cost insurance plans has long enjoyed bipart…

Former Vice President Joe Biden repeated nearly verbatim a promise that President Barack Obama made a decade ago when marshaling public support to pass the Affordable Care Act. That promise proved impossible to keep. At an AARP forum in Iowa late Monday, B…

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris discusses transitioning the current American healthcare system into Medicare for All with CNN's Kyung Lah. #CNN#News

Joe Biden defends Obamacare, attacks Trump

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Intelligencer staffers Benjamin Hart, Ed Kilgore, and Eric Levitz discuss. Ben: Today, Democratic still-front-runner Joe Biden revealed his campaigns health-care plan. As many of his rivals endorse transformative changes to the system, mostly under the banne…