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Nov 25, 2009
Keith Hennessey finds penalty tax inequity: In the year 2019 [under the Reid bill] about 16 million U.S. citizens would be uninsured and be forced to pay a penalty tax of almost $800 per year. About 8 million illegal aliens would be uninsured and would owe no penalty tax. Both groups would get their health care through a combination of out-of-pocket spending and use of uncompensated care in emergency rooms and free health clinics. This seems unfair.
Maggie Mahar (Health Beat): My confidence [in passing a health reform bill] is buoyed by the opposition’s growing virulence. Fear has turned to rage as they realize that the liberals may win.
Merrill Goozner (The Health Care Blog) on the mammogram controversy: The Obama administration’s commitment to cost control in health care can now be summed up in four words: Not on our watch.
Gene Steuerle (Urban Institute) on what all the health reform bills are ignoring: Two year old tax returns can’t deal with the fact that over the course of a year, well over a third of workers suffer a bout of unemployment, leave the workforce, enter it, partially retire, move to part-time employment, get married, get divorced, have a child, or have a child leave home. Same point was made by yours truly here.
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November 25th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
The Hennessey post is mind jarring. If you’re illegal, you get free care and pay no fine. If you a citizen, you get the same free care and the government fines you because you didn’t buy insurance. Go figure.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
You and Gene Steuerle are right. No one is paying any attention to these problems. It makes me think we are going to have a big mess on our hands.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
If Maggie thinks she is seeing rage now, wait till she sees the rage that will emerge on the left when this whole health reform effort falls apart.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Mr. Goozner has it half right. One thing that I think conservatives generally get wrong is that the health “reform” will result in a very open process of rationing, where the “science” is all out in the open – kind of like the “stimulus” website (www.recovery.gov) where the government claims to have bailed out 7 jobs milking cows in some county in Nebraska, and stuff like that.
As a Canadian in the U.S., it’s clear to me that many Americans think that governments ration care by telling patients to “take a number”, you have a spot in a queue, and you log into a website periodically to find out how the line is moving! Nothing could be further from the truth. Because such information is harmful to the governments’ interests, they keep it dark. If it weren’t for the privately funded Fraser Institute (www.fraserinstitute.org), nobody would have good information about the waiting times and lack of medical technology in Canada.
Obviously, transparency in deciding what treatments to exclude would be politically suicidal. We can have little doubt that the Secretary will continue to deny that the USPSTF recommendations will have any effect.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Here’s hoping that Maggie is disappointed. Very disappointed.