I'd rather see healthcare premiums paid with after tax dollars made deductible. I understand the argument that those who can't get insurance through an employer are at a disadvantage, but why expose those who can to new taxes? I would submit that the preferred method should be to lower taxes for those currently slighted - not raise them on the ones currently at an advantage.
What about people who decide to just pay for their own health care, rather than buying insurance? What about people who don't really need health insurance, but need something else? Why should some specific expenditures be tax deductable, but not others?
Some people are milking the system by getting "health care plans" that pay for so much they aren't "health insurance", they are just transfer payments, Like I said elsewhere, a plan that pays for 100% of your dental care, including all the normal checkups, isn't insurance, it's just a transfer payment to get to buy the treatments with pre-tax dollars.
I would agree - no new taxes for whatever reason unless it is to tax billionaires who pay zero taxes or unless it is to tax government employees - preferably Congressmen/women - whose benefit packages and pension packages are outrageous.
Never mind that the states pay for sex change operations for prisoners, etc.