Greg Ganske: “Congressmen and women from both sides of the aisle are just getting the details on the balance-the-budget plan and the…”

“Congressmen and women from both sides of the aisle are just getting the details on the balance-the-budget plan and the tax cut plan that has been agreed to by the congressional leadership and the administration. The details look good, and I am happy to see this morning that we are getting bipartisan support for this tax cut bill and for this spending bill. There will be a lot of important things in this bill for the average citizen in this country. One of the details I heard about last night was that we will move up the deductibility of our health insurance for the self-employed to 100 percent. As a physician, I have been very much concerned about making health care more affordable for the average citizen, and by making 100 percent of one's premium deductible will help people afford health insurance. This will put an awful lot of people back on to health insurance that are not on it now. One of the other issues that is in the tax bill that affects people in my district, where I have a large farming community, is that they will be able to income-average over 3 years.”