The Bid to Delay Cadillac Tax Is Stalling

As Congress works to negotiate a tax-extender package deal, one of the many ideas in the mix has been to include a delay of Obamacare’s Cadillac tax, which has drawn the ire of both lobbyists and lawmakers. But even if a final deal gets struck, the Cadillac-tax delay is increasingly unlikely to be included.

Although at some point there was talk of trading a delay of the Cadillac tax, in theory favored by Democrats, for a delay of the law’s medical-device tax, which Republicans want, any action on the health care law’s taxes is looking increasingly unlikely to happen. Opposition to delaying (or repealing) the Cadillac tax in both parties is, in part, to blame.