Nearly a quarter of the CFOs said their companies do not offer employer-sponsored health insurance.
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The biggest exclusion of all, for employer-sponsored health insurance, mostly benefits middle-income people, not the rich.
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For starters, under US tax law, premiums on employer-sponsored health insurance are deductible--not so for employee-sponsored plans.
They found that ObamaCare was primed to blow up much of the market for employer-sponsored health insurance.
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Some big ideas like limiting the tax break for employer-sponsored health insurance lacked support, so committee aides lowered their sights.
For example, part of the plan should be to cap or eliminate the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance.
See, for instance, the exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance premiums as well as many provisions of the 2010 health law.
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And upper-middle class taxpayers take advantage of breaks such as the mortgage interest deduction and subsidies for retirement and employer-sponsored health insurance.
He also reduces the benefit of two other hot-button breaks the tax exclusions for municipal bond interest and the value of employer-sponsored health insurance.
They include the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance, the mortgage interest deduction, tax-free interest on state and local bonds, and dozens of others.
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Two weeks ago I wrote about some of the unintended, but positive, consequences that could result from employers dropping employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI).
This includes popular deductions for mortgage interest, charitable gifts, and the exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance so scaling these back would be a heavy lift.
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These estimates exclude low tax rates on capital gains and dividends which are, arguably, very different from, say, subsidies for mortgage interest or employer-sponsored health insurance.
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These tax breaks include everything from earned income and child credits to deductions for mortgage interest and charitable gifts to exclusions for employer-sponsored health insurance and retirement savings.
Most respondents (65.43 percent) offer employer-sponsored health care insurance to full-time employees, while only about 1 of every 10 respondents offer employer-sponsored health care insurance to all employees.
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Further, high persistent unemployment levels have had an adverse impact on the number of employer-sponsored health insurance enrollments as many employers have cut healthcare benefits in response to market conditions.
With 156 million Americans currently enrolled in employer-sponsored health insurance, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a mass exodus from employer-coverage would represent a sea change in American health care.
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But in reality, targets would almost certainly include popular preferences such as deductions for mortgage interest, state and local taxes, and charitable gifts as well as the exclusion of employer-sponsored health insurance from taxable income.
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Further, successful reform would reduce the phenomenon of "job lock, " in which workers are reluctant to leave a job with employer-sponsored health insurance out of fear that they will not be able to find affordable coverage.
While details of the package remain fluid, people aged 55 to 64 who were uninsured or could not afford employer-sponsored health insurance would be allowed to enroll in Medicare, the federal program for the elderly and disabled.
But since these are subsidies for such All-American activities as taking out home mortgages, getting employer-sponsored health insurance, paying state and local taxes, and making charitable contributions, Congress is unlikely to cut them in half anytime soon.
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Cato scholars identified and are exploiting a design flaw that could sink ObamaCare even if God forbid the Supremes uphold the individual mandate, and are incubating better ways of reforming employer-sponsored health insurance than the ObamaCare-like tax credits that many Republicans still support.
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The plan finally addresses the tax-code legacy of World War II, by equalizing the tax treatment of employer-sponsored and individually-purchased health insurance.
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For middle-class families with employer-sponsored insurance, health care has further eroded wages.
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Get rid of employer-sponsored health care and let workers buy their insurance on their own.
In many states, those who don't have employer-sponsored insurance and are diagnosed with diabetes, cancer or even allergies can't get health insurance at all.
The individual market for health care insurance is historically underdeveloped compared to the employer-sponsored market due to high costs, individual underwriting, and the ability of insurers to deny applicants based on pre-existing conditions.
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