Health Insurance Reform to be Funded through Health Insurance Tax?

July 29, 2009
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Right now, a debate is going on regarding the new Health Insurance Reform being sold by the White House to the Congress.  According to Kat Pickert in her article, “Taxing Pricey Insurance: No Health-care Cure” on Time.com, the Congress is finding a way to pay for the said reform and that they are actually considering putting taxes on health insurance benefits.

This plan may mean up to one trillion in the next ten years and U.S. citizens are in doubt as to where the government could get such a huge sum of money.  Tax free health benefits have been offered by employers for more than half a century now and most…