Obama Health Plan Costs $950 Billion Over 10 Years: Proposal Delays Tax on High-End Health Insurance Plans Until 2018
  • The Senate bill included a new tax on high-end "Cadillac" health-insurance plans, an effort to raise money for the bill and to discourage those plans, which economists say lead to higher health spending. Unions and many Democrats opposed the measure.

    Last month, union leaders negotiated changes to lessen the impact of the new tax, including a delay in its effective date until 2018 for those with union contracts—a plan that came under fire as a special deal for labor, a key Democratic constituency.

    The White House is now backtracking, saying that the tax should be delayed for all workers until 2018.

So this is still all about helping out his big labor buddies. Got it.