Want New Taxes To Pay For Health Care? Lessons From The Affordable Care Act

A demonstrator celebrated outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 after the court voted to uphold key tax subsidies that are part of the Affordable Care Act. But federal taxes and other measures designed to pay for the health care the ACA provides have not fared as well.

When passing the ACA, Democrats touted the fact that they had included many measures to pay for the bill’s expanded coverage. But nearly 10 years later, Congress has eliminated many of those taxes.

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