claim: the proposed excise tax on "cadillac" health plans will hit "those making less than $200,000" the hardest.
author: sarah palin
evidence_1: jul 23, 2014 ... coal and health care are the two dominant themes in kentucky's hotly contested  u.s. senate race. sen. mitch mcconnell's campaign saw an opportunity to attack  his democratic opponent, kentucky secretary of state alison lundergan grimes,  on the second issue after a new report came out on the ...
evidence_2: mar 9, 2017 ... the aca made several changes to the tax code intended to increase health  insurance coverage, reduce health care costs, and finance health care reform. ...  middle-income and upper income families would be hit the hardest by the  cadillac tax. ... both individuals and employers can contribute to hsas.
evidence_3: these thresholds are set to rise with overall inflation, rather than healthcare  inflation, so more and more healthcare plans will be subject to the cadillac tax  over time ... less than twenty-five percent of the cadillac tax revenue is expected  to accrue from the forty percent excise tax itself, as companies are predicted to  devalue ...
evidence_4: mar 24, 2017 ... republicans are making changes to their health care bill, which seeks to repeal  major portions of obamacare and reform health care in america. ... the  republican plan keeps but delays the controversial cadillac tax, which calls for  imposing a 40% excise tax on generous employer health insurance plans.
evidence_5: jul 14, 2017 ... in spite of president obama's promise not to raise taxes on the middle class,  obamacare's $1 trillion in tax hikes hurt those least able to afford the burden. ...  further, the joint committee on taxation (jct) estimated this tax hike will hit 1.7  million more americans this year than will be helped by obamacare's ...