CNN’s Steve Brusk is tweeting some additional details on the Cadillac tax carve-out that unions have apparently secured. Though “still fluid”, Brusk says the deal would delay taxes on health-care policies for union members, state and local workers until 2017. (Actually, it would likely exclude collectively-bargained plans negotiated before 2013, which would, in turn, delay the tax until those contracts are renewed 2-4 years later).

The deal also seems to involve raising the threshold for taxable plans about the $23,000-per-family level set in the Senate bill, a move that would presumably let a good number of collectively-bargained union plans off the hook.

Update: The Washington Post is indicating the deal is firming up, and confirming the details.

Update II: More details. Fox News is reporting that the carve-out will be good straight through 2017 (as opposed to the more indirect exclusion after 2013 I mentioned above.) A senior Democratic official tells them the deal will raise the threshold for taxable family plans from $23,000 to $24,000, and exclude dental and vision benefits from the calculation. The story also notes that the threshold would be indexed year-to-year to the consumer price index, not health-care inflation, meaning that over time more and more Americans would fall under its aegis.

The value of the plans that are taxed would be indexed to the consumer price index plus 1 percent, meaning over time more and more people would be affected by the threshold than would be if the tax had been indexed to health care inflation.

The AP reports that union officials are also pulling for an exclusion from the tax for people making less than $200,000 a year, which in effect would make it a hybrid of the House “millionaire” tax and the Senate Cadillac tax.