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journal" host: joining us is julie appleby who is the senior correspondent for "kaiser health news." to talk to us about affordable care act, and particularly -- in particular the cadillac tax. first of all tell us about the difference between "kaiser health news" and the kaiser health organization. we are not part of kaiser permanente. we are an independent branch which is a research organization. we are entirely independent. we write stories about policy. this story is starting to come into the news because congress returns next week. there is some topic congress might do something about this impending tax. first of all tell us what would this text do and why was it implemented, why was it part of the affordable care act? guest: it is called the cadillac tax because it is aimed at these expensive health plans that have generous benefits. how does it work? under the provision there will be a 40% excise tax on any health benefit that costs more than $10,200 a year for an individual worker, or $27,500 for a family plan. remember, this is only on job-based insurance, that you get for y

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that doesn't mean people to delete -- people parti >> julie appleby looks at the cadillac tax which will take effect in 2018. she will explain the tax and its effect on health care cost and coverage and buddhist means for employees. peter grier of the christian science monitor talks about his cover article on how people choose a candidate during a presidential campaign. "washington journal" is light wednesday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. secretary of state john kerry speaks about the nuclear agreement at the philadelphia constitution center. you can see it live here on c-span. a signature feature of book tv is our coverage of book fairs and festivals across the country. beginning this weekend we are live from the 15th national festival. in early october, it is the southern festival of books in nashville. the weekend after that we are live from austin for the texas book festival. here the end of the month we are going to be covering to book festivals over the same weekend. then, we have the book festival in medicine. these closed we have the boston book festival. this will be followed

your chairs"washing" host: joining us is julie appleby who is the senior correspondent for "kaiser health news." the to talk to us about affordable care act, and particularly -- in particular the cadillac tax. first of all tell us about the difference between "kaiser health news" and the kaiser health organization. we are not part of kaiser permanente. we are an independent branch which is a research organization. we are entirely independent. we write stories about policy. this story is starting to come into the news because congress returns next week. there is some topic congress might do something about this impending tax. first of all tell us what would this text do and why was it implemented, why was it part of the affordable care act? guest: it is called the cadillac tax because it is aimed at these expensive health plans that have generous benefits. how does it work? under the provision there will be a 40% excise tax on any health benefit that costs more than $10,200 a year for an individual worker, or $27,500 for a family plan. remember, this is only on job-based insurance, that yo