The Tax Policy Center of the Brookings Institution and Urban Institute, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities —— have attempted to estimate the full incidence of ObamaCare’s taxes and subsidies.
In part this may be because ObamaCare is such a complex rewrite of health, tax, welfare and labor laws. But it’s also embarrassing to liberals that much of ObamaCare’s redistribution will merely move income to the lower middle class from the upper middle class, and the President habitually promises that people earning under $200,000 will be exempt from his tax increases. We now know they won’t be.
With his vast new powers over what government spends, Dr. Berwick will be well situated to equalize outcomes even more, and he certainly seems inclined to do so. The most charitable reading of his redistribution remarks, delivered in a 2008 London speech, is that any health insurance system will involve some degree of redistribution to the “less fortunate,” that is, to the sick from the healthy.
Pretty damn sad when this is even considered as a title of conversation.
Primary Education is the most worthless occupation we have that is over paid considering...
Trickle up assumes a starting point of ZERO.
The Democrats’ effort to socialize medical care has never been about health care delivery.
It is a device for the Federal Government to seize jurisdiction over all health insurance premium assets that are currently held in reserve by private and mutual insurance companies.
Currently, private insurance carriers are paid to administer claims for Medicare and Medicaid. Those funds/reserves are routinely plundered by the Government.
The government will simply extend that arrangement to all citizen health dollars.
There is no way the Federal Government could duplicate the private sector health claims system and hire sufficient personnel to function. However, they will probably unionize the existing insurance workers or deem them Federal employees.
If the Republicans don’t repeal this garbage in 2013, then it’s time for the TEA Party to become an actual political party, and for the GOP to go the way of the Whigs.