{"id":399957,"date":"2026-04-27T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399957\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:35:06","slug":"opinion-end-the-health-insurance-tax-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399957\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | End the health insurance tax exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YJQHEWBIKJBTRLGXELA3IXER7A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Elizabeth J. Fowler is a distinguished scholar at Johns Hopkins University. Michael F. Cannon is the director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UMPIPLZZP5DY5FRHKEG2L5IWJY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Health reform is having a moment. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/greathealthcare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2026\/02\/11\/2026-02769\/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-hhs-notice-of-benefit-and-payment-parameters-for-2027-and\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">administration<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finance.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/031926_dear_colleague_insurance.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Democrats<\/a> and a range of policy analysts across the political spectrum are promoting plans to make health care more affordable and insurance more responsive to patients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth J. Fowler is a distinguished scholar at Johns Hopkins University. Michael F. Cannon is the director of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-399957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}