Obamacare’s tooth tax takes effect on January 1

The Daily Caller ^ | December 13, 2012 | Joanne Butler, Sr. Economics Fellow, Caesar Rodney Institute of Delaware

[2ndDivisionVet]

With all the chatter about the fiscal cliff, you may not have heard of a tax change that will take effect on January 1 — and why going to the dentist now may be the right response to it.

If you’re under 65, on January 1 your medical tax deduction rate (including expenses for dental work) will take a big jump from 7.5% of gross income to 10%. (No change for folks 65 and older.)

If you’re like me, your health insurance pays a minimal amount for routine dental work — with most of the dentist’s bill being paid out of your own pocket. And if, God forbid, you should need additional work (filling cavities, etc.), you end up paying for most of that too.

A couple of cleaning visits plus a little extra corrective work can add up to a tidy sum that, when added to other medical expenses, may reach the 7.5% goalpost...

[2ndDivisionVet]

It just keeps getting better.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Gotta squeeze “the rich”. Anytime, any place, to enable “the poor”,

[mowowie]

I have had an on-again off-again tooth ache going on since last summer.

I am NOT in the mood for forking over a couple of Thou for the whole root canal business.
ARGH!!!!!!!

What a frigging rip-off.
I shoulda been a dentist.....

[FlingWingFlyer]

"We have to pass it to find out what's in it!" - Nazi Polizei

"Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!" - Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Once we get used to Fabian Socialism, it's only a short hop, skip and jump to getting used to having British Teeth...

[CSM]

They truly ARE pushing us to become more like the British!

(ducking due to stereotyping!)