Sources: Repealing health care taxes in play on spending deal

Sources: Repealing health care taxes in play on spending deal-rollcall: Congressional leaders were discussing a permanent repeal of three major health care taxes, on medical devices, health insurers and high-cost “Cadillac” insurance plans, as part of the final appropriations measures advancing this week, according to sources familiar with the talks. The tentative development follows some skepticism about whether leaders would even be able to agree to attach an extension of expiring tax cuts and other tax policy changes to the package, and little expectation that the costly taxes would be repealed altogether.