President Bush, in his State of the Union address, is expected to call for tax changes that will strive to push people out of company insurance and into self-paid insurance.
One half of the proposal sounds great: increase the tax deduction for self-insurance. But, when coupled with the other half — decreasing how much of a tax break employers can claim for company-provided insurance — you see exactly where this baby is headed.
Bush compared health insurance to home ownership. And, for those people who are in apartments?
Stupid analogies aside, self-insurance of course has massive problems with risk pools, pre-existing conditions, etc., unless you have massive regulation of the type Bush would never propose.
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