The "Cadillac tax" is exposing painful divisions within the Democratic Party.
The split among Congressional Democrats is between those who want to do away with the 40 percent excise tax on expensive health plans and those who say that doing so would undermine a key funding mechanism of the law and hamper the long-term goal of reining in the rapid growth of health care costs.
Some of the divisions are political and some are philosophical. Many in the party's left flank have close ties to unions, which are bitterly opposed to the tax, which will target some of the generous health benefits that they have negotiated for their members over the decades.
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