Would healthcare cost less if medical insurance wasn’t subsidized by tax breaks and regulated pricing mechanisms?

 

If Mr. Obama is to propose -- and find a way to pay for -- a broad expansion of health insurance,

he should reconsider his opposition to changing the preferential tax treatment

of employer-provided health insurance.

 

Why should some taxpayers without health insurance

subsidize the overly generous policies enjoyed by others?

 

From Fiscal Reality

Washington Post, Sunday, February 22, 2009; A18

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/21/AR2009022101362.html