Opinion
Tax credits for health insurance not in sync with realities of low-income life
LETTER — Posted May 10, 2004
Regarding "Study criticizes health insurance tax credit plan" (Article, April 19): When I see payday loan shops on many corners of the streets around my own office and when my own employees, whom I included in my pension plan, are borrowing as much money as they can against their benefits, it makes me wonder how anyone really believes that tax credits are going to be a meaningful benefit to the poor uninsured.
I am afraid these potential solutions are being conceived by people who have no concept of how the poor are actually living.
Hubert Neil Williston, MD, Baytown, Texas
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/05/10/edlt0510.htm.