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Tax Pledge Puts Obama in Tricky Spot

By Keith Koffler
Roll Call Staff
June 4, 2009, Midnight

President Barack Obama is finding himself boxed in by a campaign vow not to tax employer-provided health insurance, as Congressional Democrats take a serious look at using revenues from just such a tax to help defray the massive costs of Obama’s plan to provide universal health care coverage.

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