The Radical McCain Plan

A study coming out Tuesday from scholars at Columbia, Harvard, Purdue and Michigan projects that 20 million Americans who have employment-based health insurance would lose it under the McCain plan.

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For starters, the McCain health plan would treat employer-paid health benefits as income that employees would have to pay taxes on.

“It means your employer is going to have to make an estimate on how much the employer is paying for health insurance on your behalf, and you are going to have to pay taxes on that money,” …

Bob Herbert

One thought on “The Radical McCain Plan”

  1. I feel a bitter satisfaction that people think this is unfair. Every week I get my paycheck and try not to mentally calculate the amount I am being taxed for the privilege of having my domestic partner covered. . .

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