This is great, folks:
“It’s so simple. Most people who can’t afford health insurance also are too poor to owe taxes. But if you give them a deduction from the taxes they don’t owe, they can use the money they’re not getting back from what they haven’t given to buy the health care they can’t afford.”
~Stephen Colbert on McCain’s health insurance plan.
Or maybe you’re like me, where in just a few months I’d use up the health insurance tax break (if I even qualified for it) simply because I have a cancer history. Gah. Here’s a related article from the NYTimes. Also, an interesting analysis of the candidates’ stance on disability issues.