By Annette Teijeiro, M.D.
Now that 2013 is into the second quarter, we are well into some of the tax changes in preparation for the major unveiling of the new healthcare law, also misrepresented as Affordable Care Act (ACA) or dubbed Obamacare by its opponents.
Some of us were so concerned with the potential rationed care for our elderly and the invasion of our private healthcare information and decision process that we did not articulate one of the consequences of this law, the growth of government funded by us, the American people. The way this law is written, it is actually one of the largest tax increases on the middle class.
Why?
