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March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Health Systems Research - a Washington public policy research and consulting firm acquired by Altarum in 2006 - organized a meeting of researchers and other experts to explore ways that tax credits might be used to expand health care coverage.
January 17, 2011 | Program Result Report
The Health Insurance Reform Project worked to develop and advance new ideas to improve federal health policy, focusing primarily on improving quality in Medicare and expanding health insurance coverage nationally.
June 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Researchers from the Urban Institute explore possible changes to the tax exclusion of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums as a potential source of financing for health reform.
August 22, 2008 | Program Result Report
An article in Health Affairs proposed a combination of liberal and conservative strategies for extending health care coverage to uninsured Americans, combining tax credits with an expansion of public insurance programs.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
In 1996, the Galen Institute sponsored a conference on tax policy and health care reform, and, in 1999, published papers that had been commissioned for the conference in a book.
October 31, 2003 | Report
Modest, but gradually increasing, tax credit available as an alternative to a capped tax exclusion. Modest tax penalties for those not buying coverage. Employers required to offer but not pay for coverage.
October 31, 2003 | Report
A refundable tax credit/voucher system would make some level of coverage affordable to lower-middle income people who currently have no health insurance. Very low-income households would initially be eligible for publicly financed zero-premium comprehensive insurance.
October 31, 2003 | Survey/Poll
Would make refundable tax credits available to working households. States would get grants to expand health coverage to more residents and make insurance more affordable.
August 1, 2002 | Report
Tax credits, like those proposed by the Bush Administration, could help make individual health insurance affordable for the many uninsured people who do not have access to employment-based health coverage.
October 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Brandeis University, Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare held a three-day conference focused on the use of tobacco excise taxes to fund expansions in health care access for children and other groups.