Transitional Health Coverage Resource Page 
Updated January 6, 2004

The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Act of 2002 is a model for gradually expanding health coverage, first to the unemployed, later to targeted groups of working Americans.

Resources:

Legislative text of Health Care Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2003 (S. 1693) (as introduced on October 6 by Senators Grassley and Baucus).  Preliminary Revenue and Cost Interaction Table from Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT)

National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) TAA information page (as of Jan 1, 2004) 

Centrist Policy Network Expanding the Health Care Tax Credit (October 6, 2003

Centrists.Org From Transitional to Universal Health Coverage (September 24, 2003)

Internal Revenue Service Health Care Tax Credit (HCTC) Overview

Centrists.Org A Bipartisan Compromise on Transitional Health Coverage (revised April 26, 2003)

Heritage Foundation State Opportunities to Provide Affordable Health Coverage Under the Trade Law by Nina Owcharenko and Edmund Haislmaier (February 25, 2003)

Economic and Social Research Institute Health Insurance for Laid-Off Workers, A Time for Action by Lynn Etheredge and Stan Dorn (February 2003)