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Health Care Costs

PERSPECTIVE

Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription

Woolhandler and Himmelstein are correct in their underlying analysis. Taxpayers spend a staggering amount of money in "tax expenditures" to subsidize certain people’s health care, on top of paying for explicit government programs. This is more than enough to finance good health care for all. Many analysts also agree that today’s tax treatment of health care leads to inefficiency, inequity, and uninsurance. The problem is not the authors’ analysis of the problem, but their solution to it.

Problems of the tax break. Most of the tax expenditure arises because any part of an employee’s compensation provided in the form of employer-sponsored health insurance is free . . . [Full Text of this Article]

So what is the solution?Another route.

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