Tom Daschle testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2008. Budget proposals from leaders in both parties have urged shrinking or eliminating tax breaks that help make employer health insurance the leading source of coverage in the nation and a middle-class mainstay, but former senator Daschle, now a leading Democratic adviser on health care, says There is no short-term prospect of enactment. He added, However, in a tax reform (and) deficit reducing context in the long term, the prospects are much better.
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