Health Health Insurance For Those Not Covered by Medicare/VA Repeal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which will include rollback of prohibition against pre-existing conditions Continue corporate tax deduction for employer-sponsored health insurance plans Refundable tax credits of $2,300 (single) $5,700 (family) to pay for health coverage. The credit may be applied against the costs [...]
1949 Fast forward our HCR time machine to 1949. World War II is in the past, a new decade is just beyond, the first Social Security benefits are being paid to retired workers, and the future looks bright. Well, it looks bright for some, anyway. For others, not so much. President Truman has sent a [...]
I’ve been entertaining myself with a walk down memory lane on the legislative history of Social Security and Medicare for a few days. The more I read, the more familiar it all sounded. It’s a little like seeing bellbottoms and skinny jeans come back into style: fundamentally the same with small tweaks. By looking at [...]