Comments on: Response to a Critique of the McCain Health Care Plan http://healthblog.ncpa.org/response-to-a-critique-of-the-mccain-health-care-plan/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Fri, 25 May 2012 06:31:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: skebber http://healthblog.ncpa.org/response-to-a-critique-of-the-mccain-health-care-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-39733 skebber Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:51:35 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=623#comment-39733 Tips you were indeed very good.. Thank you for his all information.. Glad to have made your acquaintance Tips you were indeed very good..
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]]> By: James Lansberry http://healthblog.ncpa.org/response-to-a-critique-of-the-mccain-health-care-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-39300 James Lansberry Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:06:32 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=623#comment-39300 "There is a fourth consideration, often overlooked. Embedded in a McCain-type proposal is a pay-or-play choice for individuals. Middle-income families who choose to be uninsured would face up to $5,000 in additional taxes. So there would be no free ride. Relative to the current system, the "tax price" of uninsurance would be transparent and large." So you think mandating the purchase of health insurance is a good idea? “There is a fourth consideration, often overlooked. Embedded in a McCain-type proposal is a pay-or-play choice for individuals. Middle-income families who choose to be uninsured would face up to $5,000 in additional taxes. So there would be no free ride. Relative to the current system, the “tax price” of uninsurance would be transparent and large.”

So you think mandating the purchase of health insurance is a good idea?

]]> By: Tom http://healthblog.ncpa.org/response-to-a-critique-of-the-mccain-health-care-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-39293 Tom Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:34:54 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=623#comment-39293 I think the authors of this paper are treating the McCain proposal as if it were nothing more than extending the tax exclusion for group health insurance to the individual market. They clearly do not understand the concept of a lump sum tax credit. I think the authors of this paper are treating the McCain proposal as if it were nothing more than extending the tax exclusion for group health insurance to the individual market. They clearly do not understand the concept of a lump sum tax credit.

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