UM: Health Insurance

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The Philadelphia Daily News compares the health care plans of both presidential candidates and quotes Thomas Buchmueller, a UM health economist who co-authored an analysis of McCain’s plan for the journal Health Affairs. McCain proposes ending a tax subsidy on employer-provided insurance. Says Buchmueller: ”If you take the tax subsidy off, a lot of employers are going to decide it’s not in their best interest to provide benefits…We estimate that it will be more or less a wash in how many people end up being uninsured.” [Source]