Tax Cuts and Health Insurance

 
January 24th, 2007

By Richard Walrath 

Is there anybody on Medicare who could get insurance from a private insurance company? By age 65, doesn’t everybody have some previous condition that would disqualify for coverage? If you’re going to file claims, the insurance company doesn’t want you. What kind of asinine concept is it that says…

You get a tax-cut if your employer provides you with health insurance and you make some payment towards it

You get a tax-cut if you buy insurance on your own for health care

You don’t get a tax cut if you didn’t buy health insurance because you can’t afford to buy it.

How can anyone go on TV and stand there and make such a stupid proposal?  Oh, yeah. I forgot…

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