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Author: John C. Goodman

How Joe Biden Wants to Save Medcare

Posted on March 10, 2023March 11, 2023 by John C. Goodman
Trump (actual) Biden Proposed
Personal income tax top rate 37% 44.6%
Capital gains tax top rate (including NIIT) 23.8% 44.6%
Corporate tax 21% 28%
Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains 0% 25%
Medicare tax/NIIT 3.8% 5%
Stock Buyback tax 0% 4%

Source: Committee to Unleash Prosperity

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Friday Links

Posted on March 10, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • An argument for mask wearing, even after the Cochrane Review meta-analysis.
  • An early (and completely uncritical) history of medical licensing. To be paired with Regulation of Medical Care by moi — for balance.
  • Why Daylight Savings Time matters: “The body releases sleep-time and wake-time hormones at a particular time.” Studies have shown that deadly car accidents, workplace injuries, and heart attacks increase following the springtime change.
  • Should a face-to-face meeting be required before doctors prescribe a controlled substance for a patient?
  • California to end Walgreens contract over abortion pills policy.
  • What the Biden plan to “save” Medicare doesn’t do: repeal the Democrats’ IRA bill that takes $246 billion out of Medicare. (CBO p. 72)
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Thursday Links

Posted on March 9, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Scott Atlas: How the experts got Covid science wrong.
  • At least 2 in 5 U.S. adults said they are not willing to pay for 11 of the 12 preventive services currently required to be provided gratis by health insurance regulations. Since none of these services are cost effective for healthy people, that shows people are smarter than the politicians who imposed the regulation.
  • The operational cleavage between the US public health and medical care systems inhibited our ability to contain the spread of COVID-19.
  • A defense of Sharing health plans.
  • On Biden’s plan to increase the Medicare net investment income tax from 3.8 to 5 percent for people earning over $400,000: A tax on capital is a tax on labor, including people who make a lot less than $400,000.
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Wednesday Links

Posted on March 8, 2023March 11, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • “The crackdown on [opioid] pain pills replaced legally manufactured, reliably dosed pharmaceuticals with iffy black-market products of unknown provenance and composition. Meanwhile, prohibition fostered the rise of fentanyl as a heroin booster and substitute.”
  • Jeffrey Singer testified with the same message. He was the Democrats’ witness!
  • Telemedicine is being widely used in Ukraine.
  • Paragon: In 2019, New York (state per capita income: $67,366) received $17,145 in federal Medicaid funding per person in poverty, while Alabama (state per capita income: $43,288) received $6,148.
  • CBO’s options for reducing health care spending: establishing caps on federal spending for Medicaid; limiting state taxes on providers; reducing the federal Medicaid match rates; increasing Medicare Part B premiums; reducing Medicare Advantage benchmarks; and reducing the tax subsidies for employment-based insurance, etc.  What about a free market for health care?
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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