Households have high burden of health care payments. Alternative financing approaches could reduce this burden for some households. The objective of this study is to estimate the distribution of household health care payments across income under health care reform policies. Cross-sectional study with microsimulation used nationally representative data of the…

NIHCR Research Brief No. 20

Among the most expensive "but nearly invisible" federal expenditures is the roughly $250 billion1 annual tax break for employer-sponsored health insurance. Under current law, the value of both employer and most employee contributions for health insurance are excluded from employee federal income tax and employer and employee payroll taxes. While…