If You Like Your Health Plan, You Will NOT Be Able to Keep It

Maybe it's not just scare tactics after all. From Jim Lindgrin at the Volokh Conspiracy: If You Like Your Health Plan, You Will NOT Be Able to Keep It (links in original)

I like my employer’s health plan. Today I learned that under both the Senate and the House bills, I won’t be able to keep my plan. Both bills require reductions in health reimbursement benefits under my plan.

Both the Senate and the House health bills slash a significant part of my employer’s health plan — the Health Flexible Spending Account — restricting them to $2500 and restricting what they can used for.

That single change in my health plan (and my wife’s) will cause our family to pay a couple thousand dollars more each year in income taxes, and yet my FSA might still cause my employer’s plan to trigger the 40% Senate tax on Cadillac plans (I don’t know enough about the full cost of our plans to know).