"The tax thresholds were intentionally set far above the cost of the plans held by most workers in order to target the least-efficient plans.... The President's fiscal year 2017 budget proposal would further improve the tax's targeting. The most significant provision specifies that in any state where the average premium for 'gold' coverage on the state's individual health insurance marketplace would exceed the Cadillac-tax threshold under current law, the threshold would instead be set at the level of that average gold premium."  MORE >>