January 14, 2010 2:15PM 

# White House, Unions Reach Deal on Taxing Insurance Coverage 

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

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The [*Washington Post* reports](http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/01/white-house-unions-reach-deal.html?hpid=topnews) that the White House has reached a tentative agreement with labor leaders to tax high-cost health insurance policies.

What did you think of the negotiations? You did watch them on C‑SPAN, didn’t you?

At the Sunlight Foundation blog, I’ve [joined in some discussion](http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2010/01/12/reality-check-health-care-negotiations/) about whether a president could really force process reforms on Congress like requiring negotiations to be televised. (Short answer: It’s possible, not probable.)

But here’s a case where the White House declined to put its own negotiations on television [as the president promised](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Api4fUziAnI).

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