A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for health and long-term care insurance costs of individuals not participating in employer-subsidized health plans.
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Latest Action · March 7, 2006
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax deduction from gross income (available to itemizing and non-itemizing taxpayers) for the cost of health care insurance, including long-term care insurance, for such taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents. Disallows such tax deduction for taxpayers participating in an employer-paid health care plan or for taxpayers who have health care coverage under certain federal assistance programs.
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