Expanding Health Insurance Through Tax Reform


This paper discusses the impacts of the Heritage Foundation proposal for expanding health insurance coverage. Under the proposed tax reform, the employer tax exclusion and all other deductions for health-related expenses would be repealed. A new refundable tax credit would be created for unreimbursed medical expenses.
This paper is part of the Kaiser Incremental Health Reform Project.


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