Comments on: Which candidate’s health plan will hurt the most? http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0083 from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:47:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: DGF http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0083#comment-1863 DGF Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:12:44 +0000 http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/?p=83#comment-1863 The Obama campaign has taken to calling John McCain’s health-care plan “radical” and Barack Obama himself declared during debate that it would “lead to the unraveling of the employer-based health care system.” If ever a system needed “unraveling” this is it: The current system discriminates against those who seek to purchase their own health insurance, because it only offers a tax exemption for those who get insurance through their employers. As a result, many self-employed Americans cannot afford health insurance, even though their taxes help subsidize others. McCain’s plan would go a long way toward fixing this situation: McCain’s plan would make the system fairer by ending the tax exemption for health-care purchased through one’s employer and replacing it with tax credits of $2,500 for each individual and $5,000 for every family. The Obama campaign has taken to calling John McCain’s health-care plan “radical” and Barack Obama himself declared during debate that it would “lead to the unraveling of the employer-based health care system.”

If ever a system needed “unraveling” this is it:

The current system discriminates against those who seek to purchase their own health insurance, because it only offers a tax exemption for those who get insurance through their employers.
As a result, many self-employed Americans cannot afford health insurance, even though their taxes help subsidize others.

McCain’s plan would go a long way toward fixing this situation:

McCain’s plan would make the system fairer by ending the tax exemption for health-care purchased through one’s employer and replacing it with tax credits of $2,500 for each individual and $5,000 for every family.

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