Research sure, here is the correct answer: Its not just pushed off on the rich. Everybody increases in their taxes. Every single line that says a "Company (several different names used) pays $ X: where is the bottom line of who exactly pays that? There is a Line that specifically says Cost Sharing but every person paying for a policy is in fact paying the bills for some one else too, if this was not the case premiums would never need to be raised at the extreme levels every single year after the ACA became Law. The Law is based on this: people that worker pay for their insurance at a level to support the unhealty and non-workers.
http://alignamerica.com/node/62
Interesting link. Alignamerica.com? Ive never head of them before. They're asking for donations right on the first page though? Thats always a questionable sign.
They do seem to confirm that the vast amount of taxation is on rich people and insurance corporations. I am neither of those.
.9% Increase in Medicare Tax Rate (plus next item…)
3.8% New Tax on unearned income for high-income taxpayers= $210.2 billion ($200,000 for individual and $250,000 for joint filers)
New Annual Fee on health insurance providers = $60 billion (For calculation - Sec 9010 (b) of the PPACA.)[1]
40% New Tax on health insurance policies which cost more than $10,200 for an individual or $27,500 for a family, per year = $32 billion (inland tax as opposed to an importation tax)
New Annual Fee on manufacturers and importers of branded drugs = $27 billion (For calculation - Sec 9008 (b) of the PPACA)[2]
2.3% New Tax on manufacturers and importers of certain medical devices = $20 billion
+2.5% Increase (7.5% to 10%) in the Adjusted Gross Income floor on medical expenses deduction = $15.2 billion
Limit annual contributions to $2,500 on flexible spending arrangements in cafeteria plans (plans that allow employees to choose between different types of benefits) = $13 billion
All other revenue sources = $14.9 billion
However, I dont see any impact to myself or my girlfriend, and Ill tell you why. If what you're asserting is true, then how can you explain my girlfriend paying only $90 a month with a $1500 deductible (with a $500 HSA gift) and a $3000 catastrophic cap? And yea, shes had surgery (5 hours!) under it, so it definitely legit. This policy was $80/month last year. That annual increase was less then my homeowners insurance increase last year.
Plus, the whole article seems to imply that...well lets just say in a generic sense, every tax dollar you ever gave in your entire life helped fund some less fortunate person in much the same way. Poor folks dont pay their fair share for the highways they drive on. Poor kids dont pay taxes that help fund medical research that provides them with vaccinations. Poor families....well hell--those people getting those meals on wheels are getting them outright free aren't they?
But even so, Im pretty sure that if my girlfriend found out the entire $10 monthly increase she got saddled with was helping some poor kids get lifesaving chemotherapy somewhere, she'd be pretty OK with that. I would be too.