Tax Treatment of Health Insurance
The federal government has a rather long history of involvement in the purchase of health
insurance, and through current tax policy has incentivized more than two-thirds of the U.S.
population (160 million lives) to be covered by quality private health insurance through the
employer setting. For more than 60 years, employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) has helped to
effectively pool health insurance risks for individuals over time and across groups, with remarkably
little government interference. NAHU strongly agrees that the Tax Code can and should be used to
encourage as many people as possible to be covered by health insurance. And we believe that
policymakers should look to build upon the successes that our health care delivery system has
achieved to date.
Click here to view NAHU's more in-depth discussion
of the tax treatment of health insurance.
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