All of the Following Are Part of the "Taxes" Provision

question 17

Multiple Choice

All of the following are part of the "taxes" provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) except

• A) pharmaceutical firms and health insurance firms will pay new taxes.
• B) investors earning more than $200,000 will pay a new tax on their investment income.
• C) beginning in 2018, all taxes on employer-provided health insurance plans will be reduced or eliminated.
• D) workers earning more than $200,000 will have their share of the Medicare payroll tax increase.

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Definitions:

Thyroid

An endocrine gland located anteriorly at the base of the neck.

Pineal

Pertaining to the pineal gland, a small endocrine gland in the brain that produces melatonin, a hormone that regulates sleep patterns.

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The inability to see color, resulting in perceiving the world in shades of gray.

Protanopia

A type of color blindness characterized by a difficulty in distinguishing colors in the red-green spectrum.