Private Health Insurance: Estimates of a Proposed Health Insurance Tax Credit for Those Who Buy Individual Health Insurance
HEHS-98-221R
Published: Jul 22, 1998. Publicly Released: Aug 03, 1998.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the potential tax benefit that individuals without employment-based health coverage would receive if a tax credit were available for the premiums of individually purchased health insurance, focusing on the number of people who would possibly benefit from a tax credit and the potential value of the tax credit as proposed in H.R. 539.
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