Thursday Links – 28 November 2024

Posted on by John C. Goodman

The cost of regulation over the last three administrations.

Matt Ridley: How “experts” led to the rise of RFK.

All that’s gone wrong at Scientific American.

Rutgers study finds that DEI programs focused on “anti-racist” and “anti-oppressive” ideology tend to do the exact opposite. (New York Sun)

Paragon: Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk — could save $2.1 trillion over a decade by making changes to Medicaid and Medicare by:

limiting the federal contribution to state Medicaid programs, axing the Medicaid provider tax safe harbor, imposing Medicaid work requirements, rescinding the Biden administration’s Medicaid rules, limiting Medigap cost-sharing, imposing Medicare site-neutral policies, boosting Medicare Advantage, eliminating, Medicare bad debt, reforming 340B, stopping the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, and capping the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance.

1 thought on “Thursday Links – 28 November 2024”

  1. That Brian Blase at the Paragon is a moron. Brian wants to cap the employer insurance exclusion! What would be the cap? Now, multimillionaires like Luke Finkell earned $7,725,000 in 2024 and paid no Income Tax of 37% plus Wisconsin’s 5% on $50,496 for Dean Access PPO, the University of Wisconsin’s only PPO. The Feds lose 37% of income and 15.3% payroll tax on this highly paid cheesehead or $50,496 X 52.3% = $26,409 Annually for this overpaid schmoe.

    Why are taxpayers paying $26,409 annually for fat cat Luke Finkell’s health insurance?

    Yet poorer Texas single parent mothers buying Obamacare insurance on her child gets no Obamacare subsidies if she earns $65K annually. She can’t even deduct the premiums! That’s not fair! Dr. Goodman and Devon never consider any alternative other than evil Blue Cross.

    Brian Blase appears weak and timid and needs to provide specific figures. What is Brian’s cap? He is dealing with substantial financial matters, particularly with the Blue Cross Association (BCA), which played a significant role in getting bribes to Democrats to get Obamacare passed. Brian should take a cue from Dr. John Goodman, who seems unaware of the dangers, costs, and complexities associated with Employer Insurance in America. It’s time for Dr. Goodman to wake up and smell the roses and consider the cap.

    Is anyone willing to assist Dr. Goodman and Devon with the cap on employer insurance? The University of Wisconsin pays family annual premiums of $50,496 to Dean Access, the university’s only PPO. This HUGE amount on single parent employees! A university custodian earns $19 per hour, translating to a yearly wage of $39,520. This means the university spends significantly more on health insurance with Medica in Minnesota than wages for this employee in Wisconsin. The employee is an excuse to send Medica untold billions of Wisconsin taxpayers’ money.

    The cap can’t be higher than the employees’ wages. That’s what I recommend. I realize I only have one vote and you get all the non-profit donations from Blue Cross but I’m licensed with some experience. What say you, genius economists?

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