Oliva v. Commissioner

OPINION.

Tietjens, Judge:

Respondent takes the position that the plan under which sickness benefits were paid under the circumstances here presented does not fall within the phrase “health insurance” as it is used in the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, section 22 (b) (5); 1 that the phrase as there employed has a limited reference to ordinary commercial types of insurance policies either sold to individuals by authorized insurance companies or purchased therefrom by employers for the benefit of their employees. He relies upon our decision in Glen E. Blackburn, 15 T. C. 336, and George E. Murphy,…