Jeff Lemieux

In the following viewpoint taken from his testimony before the House Committee on Ways and Means, Jeff Lemieux argues that tax credits—health insurance subsidies to low-income workers—play a key role in the immediate expansion of health care coverage to the uninsured. In addition, tax credits can play an integral role in the eventual conversion to a system of universal, work-based coverage. The newly unemployed, he maintains, must maintain their coverage so that the number of uninsured Americans does not increase. All Americans, Lemieux insists, must have good health care choices at reasonable group rates with assistance given to those with low incomes. Jeff Lemieux is a senior economist at the Progressive Policy Institute.

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