Tax reform touted as health care remedy.(tax deductions on job-based health insurance) From: Employee Benefit News | Date: August 1, 2005| Author: Carlson, Leah | COPYRIGHT 2005 SourceMedia, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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.

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