Health Insurance Policy by Bush

By James Tam on September 26th, 2007

The White House wants to use the issue of uninsured children to resurrect the president’s long-dormant proposals to change the federal tax code to help the uninsured, adults and children alike, Grassley said, calling that a laudable goal but unrealistic politically. “The president has a goal that I share, that we need to take care of the uninsured through private health insurance.” White House lobbying has targeted the bill’s price and the mechanism that the bill uses to pay for itself, a 61-cent increase in the federal tax on a pack of cigarettes. Grassley said he was surprised to hear Bush bring up his broader health policy goals.

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