Those flat age-based tax credits to buy health insurance would be valuable only<br />to people who can afford to pay the rest of their health insurance bill.<br />During the campaign, Mr. Trump’s official health plan called for allowing people to use a tax deduction to buy health insurance.<br />Some Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan<br />and the leaders of the House committees overseeing health care, want to fund health insurance with something called an advanceable, refundable tax credit.<br />Obamacare also uses advanceable, refundable tax credits to help people buy health insurance.<br />Mr. Trump did not go into detail on this subject, saying merely<br />that “we should help Americans purchase their own coverage, through the use of tax credits.” Yet those words were a signal to Republicans fighting over two options about how the government should pay for health insurance.<br />Mr. Trump didn’t say much about what kind of credits he’d like the government to offer for health insurance.
