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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (4307)2/5/2008 4:55:24 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
You're removing the special treatment for employer provided insurance by making the employee pay income tax on it. Concurrently, you are giving everyone who has health care insurance from any source a standard deduction. So it discourages gold-plated employer insurance and encourages basic individual insurance. It's pretty much a wash for basic, employer provided insurance recipients. No? Yes, there is still special treatment for health insurance, and yes, it's more even, as you say, but it still seems like a step in the right direction to me. It enables competition between employer options and individual options which should break the employer stranglehold and give the individual more choice.

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