Emory Prof Promotes Tax Breaks to help Uninsured

from AccessNorthGa:

"An Emory University healthcare economist at the Second Annual Community Healthcare Conference said Monday make health insurance tax deductible for everybody.

Dr. Curtis Florence said at Lanier Technical College nearly 17 million Americans who are self-employed or work for small businesses are without health insurance."

OK, yeah. IF this proposal includes not just deductions but also tax CREDITS then it will help people who can't afford care. Without credits it's useless.
But even with credits, I think it's pretty useless because what people don't understand is that a huge percentage of the uninsured are TURNED DOWN for insurance because of preexisting conditions. Tax breaks don't help with that at all. Today you can get turned down for high blood pressure, cataracts, or depression, or any other of a number of very common conditions. If you have GROUP insurance, it's not a problem. But this guy is proposing individual insurance - which in my opinion is totally worthless because a huge number of people simply cannot buy it no matter how much money they have.