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Paying for Individual Health Insurance Through Tax-Sheltered Cafeteria Plans

September 1, 2010 | Journal Article

An examination of the legal issues surrounding the taxation of employees? premiums for individual health insurance found that state and federal law are unclear as to ?cafeteria plans?? legality, and that implementation of health reform in 2014 will only partially resolve the confusion.

Section 125 Plans for Individual Insurance and HIPAA's Group Insurance Provisions

January 1, 2009 | Issue Brief

Can these plans be used to purchase medically-underwritten individual insurance?

Tax Credits for Health Insurance

January 1, 2009 | Report

This paper discusses the role that tax law can play in the implementation of health reform. The tax code has served as the primary vehicle for subsidizing health care in the United States, with subsidies averaging $245 billion per year. Use of the tax code to support or implement health policy is extremely common in proposals at both the federal and state levels.

Can the Federal Government Mandate Health Insurance Coverage?: And Other Legal Issues in Health Reform

January 31, 2011 | Program Result Report

Georgetown University's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law analyzed the legal issues surrounding health reform and suggested ways to structure legislation so that it complied with existing laws and the U.S. Constitution.

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