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    <title>Tax Policy Center: Taxes and Health Insurance</title>
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    <description>Tax Policy Center reports on: Taxes and Health Insurance - The Tax Policy Center is a joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution. The Center is comprised of nationally recognized experts in tax, budget, and social policy who have served at the highest levels of government.</description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Pyrrhic victory on health reform?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Washington Times op-ed.  Leonard Burman discusses the politics of the health care reform debate.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=901281&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman)</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Taxing Adjusted Gross Income Instead of Taxable Income]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The House leadership has proposed to finance health care reform with a surtax on adjusted gross income (AGI) of high-income individuals, while the president's budget would increase the two top marginal tax rates on taxable income.  Income taxed at statutory marginal rates is 58 percent of AGI for all taxpayers but only 46 percent of AGI for taxpayers with income over $1 million.  While personal exemptions and deductions account for most of the difference between the two tax bases for the population as a whole, capital gains and qualified dividends make up most of the difference for very high income taxpayers.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1001298&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Jacob Goldin, Eric Toder)</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Tax subsidies for private health insurance: Who benefits and at what cost?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Policymakers are considering modifications to the tax treatment of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) as a way to raise revenue to help pay for health reform and provide incentives to reduce health care costs. Understanding how current subsidies work is important to assessing health reform proposals. This brief presents essential information about the structure and distribution of existing tax subsidies for ESI and the implications for policy options.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1001297&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman, Sarah Goodell, Surachai Khitatrakun)</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Distributional Effects of Tax Expenditures]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The largest tax preferences for housing, health care, and retirement saving reduce federal revenues by about 3 percent of GDP.  They raise after-tax income proportionally more for higher income groups than lower income groups, but raise income proportionately less for those at the very top. The net distributional effects depend on how these tax preferences are financed. If paid for with higher marginal tax rates, they benefit upper-middle income taxpayers at the expense of both lower-income and the highest-income taxpayers, but if paid for by lower per-capita spending, all high-income groups gain and all low-income groups lose.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411922&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Benjamin H. Harris, Katherine Lim, Eric Toder)</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Give Up A Benefit, Gain Jobs]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Washington Post op-ed, July 9, 2009. Employer-paid health insurance is entirely tax-free  a break that will cost the Treasury about $250 billion this year. Len Burman looks at tax-free health insurance provided by employers.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=901269&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman)</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[The Future of Long-Term Care: What Is Its Place in the Health Reform Debate?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[More than 10 million Americans require long-term care supports and services. Yet the system for delivering and paying for this assistance is deeply flawed. While most of the frail elderly and those with disabilities prefer assistance at home, many must live in nursing homes to receive Medicaid benefits, care coordination for those with multiple chronic illnesses is poor, and the system for financing care impoverishes many middle-income families. The national health reform debate allows policymakers to reconsider long-term care as well. This paper assesses proposals to restructure the delivery and financing of long-term care services.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411908&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Howard Gleckman)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Different Way to Pay for Health Reform]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Washington Times op-ed, May 19, 2009. Expanding health-care access is a top priority for the Obama administration, and leaders in Congress are on board. Political leaders also agree that any health insurance expansion must not increase the deficit. So how do we pay for health care without sinking the economy? The best option would be to phase in a value-added tax (VAT) dedicated to paying for health care. Packaged with the right bells and whistles, the VAT would help revive the economy, offset the burden on low-income families, and help slow health-care costs.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=901254&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman)</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[A Blueprint for Tax Reform and Health Reform]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[This paper outlines a plan for a VAT dedicated to paying for a new universal health insurance voucher combined with a vastly simplified and much flatter income tax. Top income tax rates could be cut to 25% or less and most taxpayers would not have to file returns. The health care voucher would offset the inherent regressivity of a VAT, since the voucher would be worth more than the VAT tax paid by most households. Moreover, with the VAT rate tied to health spending, the public would have a vested interest in reining in the growth of health care costs.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1001262&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman)</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Health Savings Accounts and High-Deductible Health Insurance Plans : Implications for Those with High Medical Costs, Low Incomes, and the Uninsured]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and high-deductible health plans are prominently featured in many discussions of health reform.The hope of supporters is that they will make individuals more prudent purchasers of medical care. However, the tax structure and incentives built into HSAs make them most attractive to the high-income and the healthy, populations already advantaged by the current system. HSA/high deductible plans shift more of the health financing burden onto those using significant amounts of care, with negative ramifications for the low-income and high-need. Nor is it clear that cost-containment, higher value shopping, or reductions in the uninsured will follow.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411833&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Linda J. Blumberg, Lisa Clemans-Cope)</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[The Presidential Candidates' New Tax Proposals - October 27, 2008]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[In response to the deterioration of the economy and the decline in asset values, Senators McCain and Obama have offered new proposals related to unemployment compensation, retirement savings, taxation of capital gains, and job creation. Although the proposals would provide some benefit, they have significant shortcomings.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411781&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Roberton Williams)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[An Updated Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans: Executive Summary - Revised September 15, 2008]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Both John McCain and Barack Obama have proposed tax plans that would substantially increase the national debt over the next ten years, according to a newly updated analysis by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. Compared to current law, TPC estimates the Obama plan would cut taxes by $2.9 trillion from 2009-2018. McCain would reduce taxes by nearly $4.2 trillion. Obama would give larger tax cuts to low- and moderate-income households and pay some of the cost by raising taxes on high-income taxpayers.  In contrast, McCain would cut taxes across the board and give the biggest cuts to the highest-income households.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411750&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Roberton Williams, Howard Gleckman)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[An Updated Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Tax and fiscal policy will loom large in the next president's domestic policy agenda. Nearly all of the tax cuts enacted since 2001 expire at the end of 2010 and the individual alternative minimum tax (AMT) threatens to ensnare tens of millions of Americans. While a permanent fix palatable to both political parties has proven elusive, both candidates have proposed major tax changes. This report describes how we performed our modeling and analysis, outlines the major tax proposals, and discusses the implications of their policies for the revenue raised, taxpayer economic activity, and the distribution of the tax burden.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411741&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman, Surachai Khitatrakun, Greg Leiserson, Jeff Rohaly, Eric Toder, Roberton Williams)</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[An Updated Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans: Executive Summary]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Both John McCain and Barack Obama have proposed tax plans that would substantially increase the national debt over the next ten years, according to an updated analysis by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. Compared to current law, TPC estimates the Obama plan would cut taxes by $2.8 trillion from 2009-2018. McCain would reduce taxes by nearly $4.2 trillion. Under current law, the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts would expire in 2010 and the Alternative Minimum Tax would remain in full force.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411742&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Roberton Williams, Howard Gleckman)</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[A Preliminary Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans (Summary)]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Tax and fiscal policy will loom large in the next president's domestic policy agenda. Nearly all of the tax cuts enacted since 2001 expire at the end of 2010 and the individual alternative minimum tax (AMT) threatens to ensnare tens of millions of Americans. While a permanent fix palatable to both political parties has proven elusive, both candidates have proposed major tax changes. This summary outlines our analysis of the 2008 presidential candidates' tax plans. The full length report is also available.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411702&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( The Tax Policy Center)</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[A Preliminary Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans (Full Report)]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Tax and fiscal policy will loom large in the next president's domestic policy agenda. Nearly all of the tax cuts enacted since 2001 expire at the end of 2010 and the individual alternative minimum tax (AMT) threatens to ensnare tens of millions of Americans. While a permanent fix palatable to both political parties has proven elusive, both candidates have proposed major tax changes. This report describes how we performed our modeling and analysis, outlines the major tax proposals, and discusses the implications of their policies for the revenue raised, taxpayer economic activity, and the distribution of the tax burden.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411693&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( The Tax Policy Center)</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[A Blueprint for Tax Reform and Health Reform : Before the Senate Committee on Finance]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[In this testimony Burman outlines a plan for tax reform that would maintain progressivity, raise enough revenues to finance the government, and dovetail with plans to provide universal access to health insurance. It would combine a value-added tax (VAT) dedicated to pay for a new universal health insurance voucher with a vastly simplified and much flatter income tax. With a new financing source for health care, income tax rates could be cut sharply-the top rates could be cut to 25 percent or less. The health care voucher would also offset the inherent regressivity of a VAT. And, under the simplified system, most Americans would not have to file income tax returns.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=901167&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman)</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Taking Back Our Fiscal Future]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The authors of this paperlongtime federal budget and policy  expertswere drawn together by a deep concern about the nation's long-term  fiscal outlook. Despite diverse  philosophies and political leanings, they found solid common ground and agree  that unsustainable deficits in the federal budget threaten the health and vigor  of the American economy and the first step toward establishing budget  responsibility is to reform the budget decision process so that the major  drivers of escalating deficitsSocial Security, Medicare, and Medicaidare no  longer on autopilot. The paper provides  specific policy recommendations and outlines the reasons action is critical.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1001155&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Joseph Antos, Robert Bixby, Stuart Butler, Paul Cullinan, Alison Fraser, William Galston, Ron Haskins, Julia Isaacs, Maya MacGuineas, Will Marshall, Pietro Nivola, Rudolph G. Penner, Robert D. Reischauer, Alice M. Rivlin, Isabel V. Sawhill, C. Eugene Steuerle)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Financing Health Insurance Coverage: California's Revenue Structure and Options]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[California's health care reform effort may have been one of the first casualties of the national economic downturn. Yet the conditions that gave rise to the initiative did not disappear when the plan failed, and other states are pushing ahead with proposals to expand health coverage. So it remains useful to reflect on the California experience. In particular, it will be helpful to understand the proposed funding sources, how they would have interacted with California's revenue system, and what alternative funding streams might have withstood the politics of reform. In this policy brief, we analyze the options for financing expanded health insurance coverage in California and offer our own preferred solution in light of the state's fiscal and political constraints.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1001149&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Tracy Gordon, Kim Rueben)</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Tax Code and Health Insurance Coverage : Before the House Committee on the Budget]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[In this testimony Burman argues that there are limitations to using tax credits to expand health insurance coverage. A program of health insurance tax credits combined with reforms of the market for nongroup health insurance could significantly expand coverage, but at a very high cost. The testimony summarizes the current tax treatment of health insurance, the effects of tax subsidies on coverage and health care costs, and discusses ways that tax credits might affect health coverage. Burman offers recommendations and adds that the most cost-effective approach to expanding health insurance coverage may not be a tax subsidy at all, but an expansion of an existing public program, such as Medicaid, S-CHIP, or Medicare.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=901121&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman)</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Can a Child Health Insurance Tax Credit Serve as an Effective Substitute for SCHIP Expansion?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[As the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has come up for reauthorization, the coverage of children with incomes above 200 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) has become a contentious issue. Proposals have surfaced that would subsidizing the purchase of health insurance for children between 200 and 300 percent of the FPL using tax credits and the private insurance market, as an alternative to allowing states to continue enrolling these children in SCHIP coverage. This analysis compares the family financial burdens of covering children under SCHIP and under a refundable tax credit providing a $1400 per child subsidy.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411560&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Linda J. Blumberg, Genevieve M. Kenney)</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[A Proposal to Finance Long-Term Care Services through Medicare with an Income Tax Surcharge]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[This paper proposes to expand Medicare to cover comprehensive long-term care services, including home care and custodial nursing home care. These services would be financed by a surcharge on federal income taxes. Unlike the regressive payroll tax that finances Medicares hospitalization coverage, the proposed surcharge would not increase tax burdens for low-income people. Beneficiaries would share costs through deductibles and copayments, but the program would include stop loss coverage and special protections for low-income adults. By providing long-term care insurance that protects the assets of older adults, our proposal would eliminate the savings disincentives inherent in the means-tested Medicaid system.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411484&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Richard W. Johnson, Leonard E. Burman)</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[The President's Proposed Standard Deduction for Health Insurance : An Evaluation]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The paper describes the new standard deduction for health insurance, proposed in the FY2008 Budget, and evaluates the extent to which it would meet its stated goals of expanding health insurance coverage and restraining healthcare spending, and its effects on the distribution of tax burdens in the short and long terms.  The basic approach would improve the market for health insurance, but inadequate attention was paid to problems in the nongroup market or those facing households with low incomes. In consequence, the plan could actually reduce overall insurance coverage.  The paper suggests a variety of ways in which the proposal could be improved so more people would be covered, including those with low incomes or in poor health.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411423&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman, Jason Furman, Greg Leiserson, Roberton Williams)</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[The President's Health Care Proposal Misses the Point]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[President Bush's new health care proposal ignores the most important problems in the current health care system: a lack of guaranteed affordable, accessible, and adequate insurance coverage for those with modest incomes or with high health needs. The proposal's focus on limiting the tax exemption for employer contributions and creating tax equity between the purchase of group and non-group insurance does virtually nothing to redress this situation. In fact, the proposed tax change would continue to reward those with high incomes more than low-income individuals, and the tax equity across markets could endanger coverage for the most vulnerable in most states.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=901040&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Linda J. Blumberg, John Holahan)</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Prescribing Better Under Bush's Health Plan]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The nation spends more than $250 billion annually on tax incentives for workers to buy health insurance, and the cost is rising fast. Nonetheless, 47 million people lack coverage. By any standard, we aren't getting our money's worth. This article discusses President Bush's proposed health plan, which would give everyone the same income tax deduction as long as they purchased health insurance, and the potential problems with this policy. It suggests that a properly designed voucher is a better vehicle for correcting the existing problems with health insurance.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1001051&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( C. Eugene Steuerle)</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[The President's Health Insurance Proposal - A First Look]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The paper describes the basic features of the President's plan and evaluates the extent to which it would meet its stated goals of expanding health insurance coverage and restraining healthcare spending.  The basic approach would improve the market for health insurance, but inadequate attention was paid to problems in the nongroup market or those facing households with low incomes.  In consequence, the plan could actually reduce overall insurance coverage.  The paper suggests a variety of ways in which the proposal could be improved so more people would be covered, including those with low incomes or in poor health.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411412&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman, Jason Furman, Roberton Williams)</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Implementing Employer and Individual Mandates]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[As is true of automobile insurance, a strong case can be made for a mandate that requires
individuals to purchase health insurance rather than shifting costs to others. A mandate by itself,
however, is likely to be regressive. By dealing with individual needs through the back door, an
employer mandate generally keeps costs hidden and raises employment problems, while an employer
subsidy will be poorly targeted. An individual mandate, in turn, raises other difficult administrative
issues of collection and enforcement. No employer mandate is sufficient without an individual
mandate, and millions of Americans will fall outside of any mandated system.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000999&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( C. Eugene Steuerle)</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Can We Buy Our Way to Health Reform?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[No issue has stumped policymakers more than how to provide healthcare to its citizens in an efficient and fair manner.  Every recent health "fix" has involved trying to buy health reform by devoting even more dollars to it.  In simply throwing more money into the system, they add to, rather than subtract from, the fundamental problem that someone, somewhere, somehow has to decide what health spending is worthwhile and what is not.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000998&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( C. Eugene Steuerle)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Taking a Checkup on the Nation's Health Care Tax Policy: a Prognosis : Statement of Leonard E. Burman before the United States Senate Committee on Finance]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[In this testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, Len Burman summarizes the latest data on who has health insurance and who doesn't, outlines the various tax subsidies that exist for health insurance, examines how those subsidies affect the market for health insurance and employment, and briefly comments on some reform options.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=900934&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman)</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[New Healthcare Tax Proposals : Costly and Counterproductive]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The Budget for Fiscal Year 2007 contains a package of new tax incentives for individuals and employees who are covered by high deductible health insurance policies and contribute to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). The new proposals would make the tax system more complex, less fair, and add to our budget woes, especially over the long run. The proposals would reduce revenues by $156 billion over ten years. Perhaps most problematic, they are likely to exacerbate the problems in the health care market.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000876&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Growth in the Exclusion of Employer Health Premiums]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The employer exclusion of contributions for medical insurance premiums and medical care from employee income taxes is the single largest tax expenditure in the federal budget, worth $112 billion in fiscal year 2005.  Even when adjusting for growth in medical prices, the employer exclusion still grows in real terms between 1988 and 2002 (a 36 percent rise). Yet, as health tax expenditures for employer-sponsored insurance have grown, the uninsured population has also grown, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the nonelderly population.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000794&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Adam Carasso)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Tax Credits for Health Insurance]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Over 40 million Americans under age 65--the overwhelming majority of them in working families--lack health insurance. The public ultimately shoulders the burden of paying for the medical treatment of those lacking insurance, either through higher taxes or higher health care costs. Expanding health coverage through the tax system may not be the most efficient path, but tax subsidies appear the only game in town for expanding the federal role in the provision of health insurance.  This policy brief examines implications of major expansions in tax credits for health insurance, starting with the President's refundable tax credit proposal.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=311189&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman, Jonathan Gruber)</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Tax Credits for Health Insurance]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Over 40 million Americans under age 65the overwhelming majority of them in working familieslack health insurance. The public ultimately shoulders the burden of paying for the medical treatment of those lacking insurance, either through higher taxes or higher health care costs. Expanding health coverage through the tax system may not be the most efficient path, but tax subsidies appear the only game in town for expanding the federal role in the provision of health insurance.  This paper examines implications of major expansions in tax credits for health insurance, starting with the President's refundable tax credit proposal.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=411176&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman, Jonathan Gruber)</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Don't Ignore Tax Expenditures]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[[Marketplace] The President was in North Carolina and Pennsylvania today. He's been stumping like a candidate to win support for his changes to Social Security and cuts in the budget. In Detroit, Mr. Bush said it's time to eliminate the programs that don't deliver on their promises. Commentator and tax expert Len Burman likes this 'good government test'. So he wonders why hundreds of programs are getting a pass.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=900786&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman)</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Most Households' Medical Expenses Exceed HSA Deductibles]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The 2003 Medicare prescription drug bill created Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), tax-free savings accounts for people who are covered by a "high-deductible health insurance plan," either purchased directly or on their behalf by an employer. The qualifying health insurance plan must have a deductible of at least $1,000 for single coverage and $2,000 for family coverage. Some preventative care may be covered by insurance, but all elective procedures and medicine is subject to the deductibles.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000678&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Linda J. Blumberg, Leonard E. Burman)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Health Savings Accounts and Tax Preferences for High Deductible Policies Purchased in the Non-Group Market : Potential Impacts on Employer-Based Coverage in the Small Group Market]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[This testimony was presented before the the House Small Business Subcommittee on Workforce, Empowerment, and Government Programs. Linda Blumberg addresses Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and HR 3901, a proposal to make private non-group premiums for the high-deductible health plans associated with HSAs tax deductible.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=900696&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Linda J. Blumberg)</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[A Workable Social Insurance Approach to Expanding Health Insurance Coverage]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The federal government's health budget is expanding by leaps and bounds even as the number of uninsured increases and average out-of-pocket costs for Americans rise faster than income. The task here, to identify ways to expand health insurance coverage and reduce the number of uninsured, cannot be achieved without squarely facing the constraints and dilemmas of health policy. This chapter in the book, Covering America: Real Remedies for the Uninsured, Vol. 3, is published by the Economic and Social Research Institute.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000605&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( C. Eugene Steuerle)</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[HSAs Won't Cure Medicare's Ills]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Here's one message from the new "bipartisan" Medicare bill currently being debated in Congress:  Low-income elderly people are having a hard time paying for their prescription drugs, so we need... another tax cut for rich people!  Today's tax cut for rich people--health savings accounts (HSA)--has been all but lost in the debate about the proposed new Medicare prescription drug benefit, but this wolf in sheep's clothing shouldn't be overlooked.  It is bad tax policy and bad health policy.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000578&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman, Linda J. Blumberg)</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Digging the Medicare Hole Deeper]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Will Rogers once said, "If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging."  Medicare is in a deep hole.  The small surpluses accruing right now will turn to deficits starting in about a decade when the baby boomers start to retire.  By 2026, government actuaries estimate that the Medicare trust fund will be exhausted.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000576&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman)</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[From Taxes to Health Care : Inconsistent Rhetoric Is Bipartisan]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[In recent years, the largest budgetary decisions of Congress have been concentrated in two areas: tax cuts and expansions in health care, particularly Medicare. Given all the rhetoric that surfaced during the tax cut debate, it might be worthwhile to see how consistently these arguments have been carried forth from that bill to the new Medicare bill.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000508&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( C. Eugene Steuerle)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2003 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Tax Incentives for Health Insurance]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[This paper examines the data on health insurance coverage and discusses trends in coverage. It considers the problems in the health insurance market and their implications on the nature and scope of government intervention. It uses the Urban Institute's Transfer Income Model (TRIM) to show who gains from the current tax exclusion, and examines the mismatch between current subsidy schemes and the problems in the health insurance market that an ideal subsidy might mitigate. Using TRIM, we simulate the effects of illustrative tax subsidy proposals on the distribution of tax benefits and discuss the effectiveness of those proposals at addressing health insurance market failures.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=310791&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman, Cori E. Uccello, Laura Wheaton, Deborah Kobes)</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2003 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Taxable Payroll and Payroll Tax Rates]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[While the payroll tax rates for Hospital Insurance and OASDI have increased since 1966, the HI rate has risen faster. The HI rate is now almost one-quarter of the OASDI rate. Orszag concludes that removing the current $87,000 cap on taxable payroll under OASDI would raise a substantial share of the long-term OASDI deficit.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000483&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Peter Orszag)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2003 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Tax Subsidies for Private Health Insurance : Who Currently Benefits and What Are the Implications for New Policies?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Policymakers are considering a variety of new tax credit proposals to expand health insurance coverage. Understanding how current tax subsidies work and their role in supporting employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) is important when designing such policies. This brief presents essential information about the structure and distribution of existing tax subsidies for ESI and the implications for new policy options.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000496&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman, Cori E. Uccello, Laura Wheaton, Deborah Kobes, Claudia Williams)</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Health Insurance Tax Credits : Potential for Expanding Coverage]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Tax credits are being touted as possible mechanisms for expanding health insurance coverage in the United States. Analysts, members of Congress, and the Bush administration have all developed tax credit proposals in the past few years. However, although tax credit approaches are clearly appealing in certain respects, they are probably not the most effective tools for expanding health insurance coverage.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=310212&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Linda J. Blumberg)</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[First, Do No Harm: Designing Tax Incentives for Health Insurance]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[A bipartisan consensus favors public policy initiatives to expand health insurance coverage.  This paper summarizes new CPS data on health insurance coverage for the nonelderly and discusses the issues involved in subsidizing health insurance.  We outline a tax credit option designed to diminish many health insurance market flaws.  A simple model illustrates that the Administrations recent proposal for tax credits for nongroup insurance alone is equivalent to a general insurance tax credit (our preferred option) with a tax on ESI.  Thus, it runs the risk of doing harm - undermining the insurance that currently covers most nonelderly Americans.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=410357&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman, Amelia Gruber)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2001 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Pitfalls of Tax Incentives For Long-Term Care : Commentary]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[[Tax Notes] Included in the health care proposals announced by the White House recently and highlighted in the President's state of the union address is a $3,000 income-related, nonrefundable tax credit for severely disabled persons and families helping to care for them. The plan stands a good chance of being enacted, reflecting a growing consensus that more needs to be done to ease the burdens of long-term care. While this attention is welcome, the use of the tax code to solve long term care problems raises issues of fairness and effectiveness.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=900205&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Joshua M. Wiener)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA["Spending" the Surplus: Counting the Ways]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle considers the math behind President Clinton's proposal to spend 62 percent of the surplus on Social Security, with another share to be allocated to Medicare, and that the remaining share be spent on other items, including a subsidy for new private pension accounts.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000177&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( C. Eugene Steuerle)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Social Security Reform: The Budget Debate All Over Again]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle comments on what makes Social security and Medicare reform suffer from the same problem that for so long made budget reform difficult. He argues that the reform efforts measure gains and losses, winners and losers, from a base of a system that is imbalanced and whose promises don't add up.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000084&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( C. Eugene Steuerle)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 1998 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Factors Influencing Retirement: Their Implications for Raising Retirement Age]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[This study sheds light on the impact on workers of a higher normal retirement age, using data from the 1990 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the 1994 wave of the Health and Retirement Study.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000207&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Cori E. Uccello)</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 1998 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Policy Challenges Posed by the Aging of America]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[As the nation faces the growing aging population, the authors discuss numerous Social Security reform proposals that would scale back benefits, or use individual savings accounts or increased government and Social Security surpluses to try to increase national saving and, eventually, to replace lost benefits. The authors conclude that proposals should be judged according to their ability to meet various goals or principles. Among the most important are fairness, economic efficiency, and economic growth. More research is needed on the fine points of proposals to fend off a retirement crisis and put Social Security and Medicare on a secure footing. Such research should feed into a national dialogue on Americans' shared retirement future.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000214&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Leonard E. Burman, Rudolph G. Penner, C. Eugene Steuerle, Eric Toder, Marilyn Moon, Lawrence H. Thompson, Michael  Weisner, Adam Carasso)</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Taxing the Elderly on Their Medicare Benefits]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle examines prospects for Medicare reform.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000109&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( C. Eugene Steuerle)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 1997 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Child Credits: Opportunity at the Door]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle suggests modifications to the child credit that could improve tax, health, and welfare policy.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000111&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( C. Eugene Steuerle)</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 1997 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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	<title><![CDATA[Searching for Savings in Medicare : Executive Summary]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[This paper raises a number of concerns about various options and offers a number of examples of ways to slow the growth of Medicare spending.]]></description>
	<link>http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?id=1000093&amp;RSSFeed=Taxes_and_Health_Insurance.xml</link>
		<author>info@taxpolicycenter.org ( Marilyn Moon, Len Nichols, Korbin Liu, Genevieve M. Kenney, Margaret B. Sulvetta, Stephen Zuckerman, Crystal Kintz)</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		
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