Responsible Tax Credits for Health Insurance
Friday, April 20, 2001 | 10:30 a.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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About This Event

Tax credits to expand health insurance coverage are being considered by the Bush administration and several members of Congress. While there appears to be substantial interest in and bipartisan support for tax credits, their use as a means of subsidizing the purchase of health insurance presents both challenging policy tradeoffs and complicated design issues. What are the effects of different levels of tax credits? Can we predict either the effects or the costs of tax credits? Does it matter if we cannot? What would the effect be on employer-provided coverage? How prescriptive does the legislation have to be?

In this joint health policy and tax policy discussion, Mark Pauly and John Hoff will elaborate on their answers to these and other questions. Their presentation will be based on a new study,

Responsible Tax Credits for Health Insurance (AEI Press, forthcoming), draft copies of which will be available at this session. A panel of experts on tax credits and health insurance will respond.
Agenda

9:00 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30

Opening Remarks:

Robert B. Helms, AEI

Speakers:

Mark Pauly, University of Pennsylvania

John Hoff, health lawyer

Discussants:

Stuart Butler, Heritage Foundation

Lynn M. Etheredge, consultant

Jeff Lemieux, Progressive Policy Institute

Len Nichols, Urban Institute

Moderator:

Kevin A. Hassett, AEI

Noon

Luncheon

12:30 p.m.

 The Bush Administration's Health Insurance Tax Credit Proposal

Speaker:

Mark McClellan, consultant, Council of Economic Advisers

1:15

Adjournment
AEI Participants

 

Kevin A.
Hassett
  • Before joining AEI, Mr. Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University, as well as a policy consultant to the Treasury Department during the George H. W. Bush and Clinton administrations. He served as an economic adviser to the George W. Bush 2004 presidential campaign and as Senator John McCain's chief economic adviser during the 2000 presidential primaries. He also served as a senior economic adviser to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign. Mr. Hassett is a columnist for National Review.

  • Phone: 202-862-7157
    Email: khassett@aei.org

  • Assistant Info

    Name: Veronika Polakova
    Phone: 202-862-4880
    Email: veronika.polakova@aei.org
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Robert B.
Helms
  • Robert B. Helms has served as a member of the Medicaid Commission as well as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation and deputy assistant secretary for health policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). An economist by training, he has written and lectured extensively on health policy and health economics, including the history of Medicare, the tax treatment of health insurance, and compared international health systems. He currently participates in the Health Policy Consensus Group, an informal task force that is developing consumer-driven health reforms. He is the author or editor of several AEI books on health policy, including Medicare in the Twenty-First Century: Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform and Competitive Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
  • Phone: 2028625877
    Email: rhelms@aei.org

  • Assistant Info

    Name: Catherine Griffin
    Phone: 2028625920
    Email: catherine.griffin@aei.org
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Mark V.
Pauly
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