Michael Hamilton is the Heartland Institute research fellow for health care issues and the managing editor of Health Care News. A Hillsdale College graduate and former educator, he has written and edited for a variety of online and print media including The Federalist, PJ Media, WORLD, The Philos Project, Canon & Culture, LifeSiteNews.com, The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation blog Dissident, and Ohio Conservative Review. Michael serves as vice chairman of the board of Forge Leadership Network to help identify, train, and connect America's future statesmen.
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Should employees be allowed to pay for their health care with tax-excluded dollars? Dr. Roger Beauchamp, D.D.S., joined Michael Hamilton on the Health Care News Podcast to share his proposal for reforming the U.S. tax code to empower employees to spend their hard-earned wages on the health care solution of their choice.
Currently, people may deduct medical expenses in excess of (in most cases) 10 percent of their adjusted gross income. But this deduction recovers only a portion of their income tax, not money sent off to the IRS to pay for FICA or Medicare.
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