Ed Dolan on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
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Employer Sponsored Health Insurance Is Not Tax Deductible
The sex-understates the real cost to you as a worker. The idea though being that if you got $20,000 in wages, you'd have to pay taxes on it. It's not worth much unless you have high tax bracket. For workers in the bottom fifth of the income distribution, they get benefits of around $500 a year from employer sponsored health insurance. If you're low paid and paying only payroll tax, it's not nearly as good a deal.
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