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Article: Tax reform touted as health care remedy.(tax deductions on job-based health insurance)
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- Employee Benefit News
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- August 1, 2005
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As a cure for health care inflation, some health policy experts want to eliminate the employee tax subsidy for job-based health insurance, claiming it distorts the marketplace and discriminates against poor people. To make such a change revenue-neutral - and politically palatable - conservative public policy organizations suggest lowering taxes to compensate for eliminating the tax deduction or setting up a system of tax credits for individual health insurance.
Conservative economists argue that health care is over-regulated, and shrinking government's role would promote competition, efficiency and individual responsibility.
Daniel Mitchell, a tax policy ...