"Repealing the tax on health insurers would cost about $116 billion over the 2014-2023 period and undercut health reform ... 'Pay-as-you-go' rules would require Congress to offset the cost of repeal by raising other taxes or reducing spending; one likely target would be provisions of the ACA that expand health coverage to 25 million more Americans. In addition, repealing the tax would encourage efforts to repeal other revenue-raising provisions of the ACA, which in turn would require still more painful offsets or increase the budget deficit if Congress failed to offset the cost."  MORE >>