Obama: I Would Veto Tax On Health Benefits President Obama said in an interview with Jim Lehrer yesterday that he would veto a health bill care that taxed medical benefits. “Essentially employers would stop providing healthcare,” said Obama. “John McCain had suggested everybody gets a tax credit, but the concern was that the tax credit wouldn’t be sufficient to actually buy health insurance on the market. So I am still opposed to that and would veto a bill if that was the approach.”
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