Looks like the president got a talking-to from his union friends:

Union anger prompts review of insurance tax
WASHINGTON – Health care negotiators are looking at options for easing a proposed health insurance tax that has angered organized labor, including the possibility of a new levy on the investment earnings of upper-income people.
The idea is to extend the Medicare payroll tax — which now applies only to income from wages — to cover some of the investment earnings of couples making more than $250,000 a year, and individuals earning above $200,000, a Democratic official said Tuesday. That would make up lost revenue from scaling back the insurance tax.
Many ideas are being discussed, and no final decisions have been made, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations between the White House and Congress.
Prompting the review is an outpouring of complaints from labor leaders angry over President Barack Obama’s support for a tax on high-cost health insurance plans. The 40 percent levy would fall on employer health plans worth more than $8,500 for an individual or $23,000 for a family.