Chapter[ Executive Summary
Section[ Ensure Affordable Health Care for All
Specifically, the American Health Choices Plan will:
4. Ensure Affordable Health Coverage for All: Hillary Clinton’s plan will:
• Provide Tax Relief to Ensure Affordability: Working families will receive a refundable
tax credit to help them afford high-quality health coverage.
• Limit Premium Payments to a Percentage of Income: The refundable tax credit will
be designed to prevent premiums from exceeding a percentage of family income,
while maintaining consumer price consciousness in choosing health plans.
• Create a New Small Business Tax Credit: To make it easier—not harder—for small
businesses to create new jobs with health coverage, a new health care tax credit for
small businesses will provide an incentive for job-based coverage.
• Strengthen Medicaid and SCHIP: The Plan will fix the holes in the safety net to ensure
that the most vulnerable populations receive affordable, quality care.
• Launch a Retiree Health Legacy Initiative: A new tax credit for qualifying private and
public retiree health plans will offset a significant portion of catastrophic expenditures,
so long as savings are dedicated to workers and competitiveness.
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