There are email messages and news articles circulating about fears related to new taxes on health benefits. Here are some facts from our political blog that should assuage at least some of your concerns:
Taxes on your insurance plan  are not scheduled until 2018, and chances are the bill will be changed, repealed, or stricken down before then.
Beginning in 2011, the amount of your insurance will be reported on your W-2 form, but it’s just for information.  You don’t have to pay taxes on your plan. 
In 2018, insurers must pay a 40% tax on the part of “Cadillac” benefit plans that exceeds $10,200 for individuals or $27,500 for families (not including stand-alone vision or dental benefits). If you have a tax-favored health savings accounts or flex spending account, they will be included in the limit.
By way of example, if your insurance premiums are $2500 per month for your family ($30,000 per year), your insurer will have to pay 40% of $2,500, or $1000 per year. Usually, what would happen is your employer and or provider would adjust your policy so it’s less expensive, so that it doesn’t exceed the limit. 
There are some exceptions. The higher tax will not apply for people in high-risk professions (i.e., those that have higher health insurance costs). Retired Americans also have a higher standard before the tax applies, because their health insurance costs more. 
You can expect a couple things to happen here. Insurers will pass on the extra taxes in the form of higher premiums. Also, employers will cut down the so-called Cadillac plans so that the premiums fall below the level described above.
We are talking about the most expensive plans, though. The average policy for an individual cost $4,824 per year for single coverage and $13,375 for family coverage in 2009, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.  Thus, there are very few health plans that will incur the penalty.  
 Congress has thus postponed the day we’ll have to make a final decision.  They have several years in which to make adjustments to the law, or do away with it in its entirety.  If they don’t change it, you still are not likely to see any effect from the new law. 

Tom Schmidt writes for Galago.net.