Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 38

Health premium tax deduction and expanded Health Savings Accounts

Never delivered
“[paraphrase] Allow individuals to fully deduct health insurance premiums from their tax returns and create tax-free Health Savings Accounts.”
Promised
, Campaign health care position paper
Re-promised
5 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Health care
Era
2016 campaign

What happened

Neither element became law. The 2017 tax law did not create a premium deduction for individuals, and PolitiFact found Health Savings Accounts were substantially unchanged from when Trump took office. Both promises were rated broken in July 2020.

Sources

  1. Allow individuals to deduct health care insurance premiums from taxes PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Jul 15, 2020
  2. Create a health savings account PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Jul 15, 2020