Health buffs would be unfitting as every other nation has halftracks that all share the same health, the only exception is the USF M15 Flak HT with the 37mm main gun and the 2 .50 machine guns that gets a slight HP buff at vet3 and suddenly becomes very hard to kill, as you are forced to faust it or use a vehicle/tank and a good amount of time to shoot at it. I still believe, that a slight supression buff or the possibility to ignore terrain to supress more reliable would go a long way to perform well against infantry while staying vulnerable to at-guns or vehicles and not being too dominant and punishing early on before the vet2 boni kick in.
getting the HP buff at a VET 2 or even vet 3 as a OKW HT would be a good thing which will make you play more safelly with it and letting it vet up to be good even at a late game.