RJ Eskow: Separate And Unequal: U.S. Health Care and the Rep

For his part, according to the Boston Globe, John McCain is still "working out the details" of his health plan. He's already done enough. Some friendly reporters are emphasizing his willingness to offer tax credits rather than just tax deductions, as his GOP predecessors have done. But his plan is the same prescription for disaster that Bush's and Giuliani's were. Like them, he proposes to end tax benefits for employers providing health insurance. That would effectively scrap the current employer-funded system which, however imperfect, provides health coverage to millions of Americans today.

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