Health care benefits are excluded from taxation

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Under current US law, employer-provided health care benefits are excluded from taxation. Use an indifference curve analysis to model the impact of eliminating the exclusion upon the amount of health care benefits. (Hint: Think of an individual as consuming two commodities, “health care benefits" and “all other goods.")

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