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he's got, i don't know, cliff notes toward a health care plan. in april 2008, john mccain laid out his health care plan. at its core was a major change to the way we tax health care. right now employers don't pay a dime of taxes on health care benefits. this tax break is fundamentally the foundation of our entire health care system. it's why so many of us get health care through our employers. a lot of people, myself included, think it is a cracked bad foundation, in fact. mccain proposed to eliminate it and replace it with a $2,500 tax credit for individuals and for families irrespe...

at its core was a major change to the way we tax health care. right now employers don't pay a dime of taxes on health care benefits. this tax break is fundamentally the foundation of our entire health care system. it's why so many of us get health care through our employers. a lot of people, myself included, think it is a cracked bad foundation, in fact. mccain proposed to eliminate it and replace it with a $2,500 tax credit for individuals and for families irrespective of employment status. he got killed. independent experts noted the plan would make health care more expensive for e...

at its core was a major change to the way we tax health care. right now employers don't pay a dime of taxes on health care benefits. this tax break is fundamentally the foundation of our entire health care system. it's why so many of us get health care through our employers. a lot of people, myself included, think it is a cracked bad foundation, in fact. mccain proposed to eliminate it and replace it with a $2,500 tax credit for individuals and for families irrespective of employment status. he got killed. independent experts noted the plan would make health care more expensive for e...

fixing it. we can't afford john mccain. >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >> mccain was in that fall perhaps the first republican in a generation to lose to a democrat on the tax ire. and obama's attacks were somewhat disingenuous. the affordable care act ended up including a smaller version of the tax increase. that is the downside of putting forward a plan. when you tell people the tough choices you're going to make, they attack you for them. sometimes a little bit unfairly. that is politics. but it's a necessary part of politics because if you don't put forward a pla...

next senate finance committee chairman max baucus talks about the need to change the u.s. tax code. he said the committee would be meeting next week to talk to so-called tax extenders provisions in the code that benefit particular sectors of the economy. his remarks are followed by a panel with former republican ways and means committee chairman bill thomas and budget director alice rivlin. the bipartisan policy center hosted this one hour event. >> good morning and welcome to the bipartisan policy center. i'm the vice president of public policy. for those of you not familiar with th...