Kirsten Powers has an editorial at the New York Post attacking the excise tax. “(N)no topic has gotten more ink during the health-care debate than cost,” she observes. “This question has become the obsession distracting us from the moral imperative to provide health care to all Americans.”
Powers draws a parallel between discussions of war policy and the health care debate, contrasting the resistance to questions of cost in matters of war with the way the matter is handled in health care. She writes this about the excise tax:
“The plan to tax so-called ‘Cadillac health plans’ has remained intact — but, sorry, raising taxes doesn’t equal cost-cutting.”
