The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that would scrap Obamacare’s so-called “Cadillac tax,” an inactive provision of the health law meant to help control health-care spending.
The tax, set to go into effect in 2022, is unpopular with both Republicans and Democrats, who say it punishes the middle class.
The “Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2019” currently has more than 350 co-sponsors and is expected to pass the Democratic-controlled House Wednesday afternoon. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., who introduced the bill earlier this year and has spent years trying to repeal the provision in the health law, has said the tax would put workers and their families’ health coverage at risk.
