| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | What the Gruber tax plan really means | | At a town hall meeting where he campaigned for health care legislation in 2009, President Barack Obama pledged to voters that he did not want any tax on health insurance plans he perceived as wastefully generous to ever impact average Americans. But in recent comments by one of the men who helped draft the legislation, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, that is not only precisely what will happen -- but that was the intention of the tax. |
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