Administration open to taxing health benefits
Proposal problematic for Obama as he denounced similar one in campaign
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Romer: Insurance taxes not off table
March 15: Dr. Christina Romer, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, discusses the Obama administration’s approach to taxing health benefits with NBC’s David Gregory on “Meet the Press.â€
Meet the Press
By Jackie Calmes and Robert Pear
updated 9:31 a.m. CT, Sun., March. 15, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is signaling to Congress that the president could support taxing some employee health benefits, as several influential lawmakers and many economists favor, to help pay for overhauling the health care system.
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