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Increase in the Medicare payroll tax for those making over $250,000 a year, and a 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic procedures, already lovingly called the botax here in Washington, D.C. As you know, a number of these proposals are quite controversial, and your friends in the labor movement particularly don't like the C.dillac insurance plan tax.
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He did, however, eliminate another proposed excise tax -- the so-called botax -- on elective cosmetic surgery "and replaced it with a tax on indoor tanning services."
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The controversial parts are, as I understand it, mostly the ones that deal with financing insurance for the un-insured, mandating insurance for those who can afford it but choose not to have it, and some of the taxes (e.g. the 'botax' and the 'Cadillac plan' tax).
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People were calling this "botax" you may remember.
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Early drafts of the bill had included a tax on breast implants, tummy tucks and botox injections, a so-called "botax" that would generate $5 billion over 10 years.
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When the Democrats scrapped the "botax" for a tanning-bed tax, they argued that tanning is harmful to people's health.
NY Post: News 2010
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A 10 percent tax on tanning was placed in the federal health care bill instead of the originally proposed 5 percent "botax," which would have taxed cosmetic surgeries.
Kansan.com stories < 2010
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When the Democrats scrapped the "botax" for a tanning-bed tax, they argued that tanning is harmful to people's health.
NY Post: News By MAGGIE GALLAGHER 2010
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A 10 percent tax on tanning was placed in the federal health care bill instead of the originally proposed 5 percent "botax," which would have taxed cosmetic surgeries.
Kansan.com stories < 2010
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But under heavy lobbying by dermatologists and plastic surgeons, the "botax" was removed and replaced by a tax on tanning salons that is projected to generate $2.7 billion over the same decade's span.
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"A Botax? Senate committee gets creative
A tax on plastic surgery, call it a "Botax", is on the table, as senators desperately try to come up with creative ways to fund $1 trillion in health care reforms."
--Fox News
November 20, 2009