Posted on 01/07/2017 11:01:19 AM PST by Brian Griffin
Soda tax? To fund a government malpractice pool?
You need to stop sniffing glue.
No quicker way to de-legitimize oneself
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“Soda tax? To fund a government malpractice pool?”
“You need to stop sniffing glue.”
The soda tax is a tax that the jurors most likely to award massive uneconomic damages awards would pay.
The tax is designed to make the lower-income jurors who haven’t earned much money in their lives think hard and carefully before handing out other peoples’ money.
“soda tax”
As you all well know, there are lots of people that don’t pay for much of anything - the welfare class.
There are a limited number of possible ways to get low-income people to contribute without causing them misery.
“soda tax”
One possibility I thought of before the soda tax was Medicaid adult co-pays.
However, providers would have a hell of a time collecting them.
It is much easier to raise money via a soda tax than for a office manager to get $5 or $10 an office visit from life-long moochers.
The moochers gladly pay for soda.
Even the middle class hates co-pays.
Dude, you can’t fix prices for every contingency, moreover, what about inflation?
If enrollment is only for Medicare/Medicaid providers, this will be another reason for doctors to drop out.
This is too centralized and complex. The only winners here are the totalitarian bureaucrats. I hate technocracy.
*”Dude, you can’t fix prices for every contingency, moreover, what about inflation?”
My plan explicitly allows for justified increases.
Laws can be amended.
Inflation is officially considered small.
Social Security has only been increased by about 10% during Obama’s time in office.
*”If enrollment is only for Medicare/Medicaid providers, this will be another reason for doctors to drop out.”
They almost all [99.99%] impact interstate commerce.
The Medicare/Medicaid/EMTALA stuff is merely make it impractical for state legislatures filled with lawyers to block enrollment.
*”This is too centralized and complex.”
Yes, it is “centralized”. The number of true medical malpractice cases is small.
What you think is “complex” is to me very simple. I’m used to digging through piles of patents that are several feet tall (~5,000 pages of highly technical information)and working on software systems with source code books that stack as high as all the phonebooks for California would have.
*”The only winners here are the totalitarian bureaucrats. I hate technocracy.”
Medicine and medical malpractice is highly technical. So yes, it is appropriate that the cases be first handled by technocrats.
Better to pay technocrats about 10% of the malpractice costs than lawyers about 60%.
Soda tax is a new thing, claiming massive awards likely is dubious. Further, the purpose of a tax is to induce jury awards? I could go on.
Where does the Constitution authorize the federal government to provide professional/business insurance?
“the purpose of a tax is to induce jury awards”
Reduce jury awards
“Where does the Constitution authorize the federal government to provide professional/business insurance?”
There are federal malpractice reform bills pending, including one by Congressman Price, the man most likely to become the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The system for paying for health related things like drugs, the second largest item of interstate commerce, is at the breaking point.
Many people can’t buy the (interstate commerce sourced)drugs they need because health insurance is too damn expensive.
One of the reasons why health insurance is too damn expensive is because the existing medical malpractice system isn’t working well.
A problem of socialism.
You sidestepped the question, by the way.
This is Brian Griffin
This proposal is a scam being pushed by someone to open the flood gates of malpractice claims. If you are a physician you would be sued by every patient under this system. There would be no reason not to make a claim under this system. Say goodbye to health care by an independent physician under this approach. This is designed to collapse the health care system.
“Where does the Constitution authorize the federal government to provide professional/business insurance?”
It comes from the explicit power of Congress to levy direct and income taxes - just as with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid systems.
I didn’t ask about authority to tax, I asked about authority to provide professional/business insurance.
By that measure the powers of Congress are unlimited rather than enumerated.
You really do need to stop sniffing glue.
By creating another Federal Government unaccountable bureaucracy staffed with elite grossly overpaid Union protected Public Servants whom will issue directives, fines and penalties to everyone involved in malpractice litigation EXCEPT lawyers and welfare trans sexual clients.
And pay for it with an ultra Progressive Politically Correct soda tax.
MORON
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