Commentary: Taxing health benefits would make budget problem worse, not better
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http://www.rollcall.com/news/courtney_cole_taxing_health_benefits_would_make_budget_problem_worse_not-209893-1.html
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Media Outlet
Roll Call
Reps. Joe Courtney and Tom Cole co-authored an op-ed on the tax treatment of health benefits under the Affordable Care Act that cited the American Academy of Actuaries for a joint Academy/Society of Actuaries January 2010 technical report regarding the excise tax contained in then-proposed health care reform legislation. The actuaries said the proposal, which would use premiums to measure the comprehensiveness of benefits, could disproportionately impact early retirees as well as small business and high-risk professionals, not because their plans are more generous, but because the cost of premiums for these groups tend to be high.
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