That somebody is Kate Pickert, who wrote about the excise tax at TIME’s “Swampland” blog. Editors will be editors, so we can’t necessarily blame her for the piece’s misleading title: “Who Should Pay for Health Care Reform – the Rich or the Richly Insured?” But she calls the plans affected “generous.” If she had read two papers published last week in the respected journal Health Affairs, she would know that many of the health plans that exceed the tax’s trigger point are not “generous.” A number of others factors drive a health plan’s cost, and “generosity” of benefit only accounts for 3.7% of the difference. (Gabel et al.)
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