Senate Aides: Reid Considering Medicare Payroll Tax Increase On Wealthy

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pondering a proposal to increase the Medicare payroll tax on high earners “to help offset the costs of providing health insurance to millions of Americans, Senate aides said Thursday,” The New York Times reports. The proposal is in the health reform package that Reid has sent to the Congressional Budget Office for analysis.

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on November 16th, 2009