to say that I got him “exactly backward.” His point wasn’t that people with expensive health insurance plans would scale them back in response to the president’s proposed tax reform. Rather, it was that insurers would offer more coverage for less money. Thus (at least some of) the affected workers would find themselves getting the same coverage and, perhaps, a raise. The value of their compensation to them, after tax, could go up. He has a good point.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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