It is the Americans who do not pay any federal tax that need healthcare most;
not people who can reap tax benefits.
Sure, "we can go there."
But if we go there, 20% of the population will have no health insurance at all.
Go ahead. Try it.
There will be fighting in the streets.
The signal accomplishment of Obamacare is its normalization of Universal Healthcare.
Expectations have been heightened and Americans aren't going back.
"The Hard, Central Fact Of Contemporary Conservatism"
The fact that Republicans cannot conceive the futility of "tax benefits" (as a solution to America's healthcare crisis) reveals the depth and breadth of their denial.
Or is it...
Aggressive ignorance?
Garden variety stupid?
Minions of Beelzebub?
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A conservative alternative to Obamacare. "The first step of a plan to replace ObamaCare should be a flat and universal tax benefit for coverage. Today's tax exclusion for employer-provided health coverage should be capped so that people would not get a bigger tax break by buying more extensive and expensive insurance. The result would be to make employees more cost-conscious; and competition for their favor would make insurance cheaper. That tax break would also be available--ideally as a refundable credit sufficient at least for the purchase of catastrophic coverage--to people who do not have access to employer coverage...Medicaid could be converted into a means-based addition to that credit." Ramesh Ponnuru and Yuval Levin in The Wall Street Journal.
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