[NPInfo] McCain the Health radical?

[Joanne DaCunha]

And, you think the government can fix that? 

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Subject: [NPInfo] McCain the Health radical?

I pay close to $18,000 a year in after tax dollars for the worst health
care coverage I have ever had.

July 30, 2008, 9:06 am
Why McCain Is the Radical on Health
Posted by Jacob Goldstein
John McCain "is proposing the most fundamental health-care reform" of
the presidential campaign, a McCain adviser argues in an op-ed in this
morning's WSJ.

This struck us as a rather surprising argument, given that Barack
Obama's proposal includes mandating insurance for all children and
creating a national public insurance program to cover those who don't
have access to insurance through their employers.

The op-ed, John C. Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis,
focuses on McCain's proposed changes to the tax code, which constitute
the main thrust of his health plan.

Goodman writes that the current system is "extremely arbitrary,"  
because it allows employers to pay for health insurance with pre-tax
dollars, but doesn't extend that break to the growing number of people
whose employers don't provide insurance.

McCain's plan would get rid of the tax break for employer-sponsored
insurance, and replace it with a fixed insurance tax credit - $2,500 for
individuals, $5,000 for families - that people could use whether or not
they get their insurance through work.

This would create a "fairer, more efficient system with a much better
chance of insuring the uninsured and controlling health costs at the
same time," Goodman argues.



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