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Category: Cost of Healthcare

Biden Breaks his Promise

Posted on August 4, 2022August 4, 2022 by John C. Goodman

David Henderson via IPI on the Inflation Reduction Act:

The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) has done its job, estimating the increase in taxes for people in each income group.

People with income between $75,000 to $100,000 will see their average tax rate rise from 15.8 percent to 16.0 percent. The average tax rate for people with income between $100,000 and $200,000 will rise from 19.1 percent to 19.4 percent, and between $200,000 and $500,000 will rise from 24.1 percent to 24.4 percent.

President Biden is eager to sign this bill, assuming it passes. So much for his campaign promise not to increase taxes on people making under $400,000.

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More on the Idea that Success in Life Depends on Who Your Friends Were

Posted on August 4, 2022 by John C. Goodman

Raj Chetty study summarized here.

James Pethokoukis comments:

I’m reminded here of the important findings about upward mobility found in Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success by economists Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University) and Leah Boustan (Princeton University). This is the headline grabber: “Children of immigrants from nearly every country in the world are more upwardly mobile than the children of US-born residents who were raised in families with a similar income level.”

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Wednesday Links

Posted on August 3, 2022August 2, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • When the Obamacare subsidy expansion doesn’t go away after three years (a good bet), the real cost climbs from $64 billion to $248 billion.
  • Health Affairs study: US has the highest administrative costs among the world’s health care systems. Of course it ignores the admin cost of tax collection – which are 25 cents on the dollar, or more.
  • Keeping Africa poor: first world elites want to deny the third world access to fossil fuels.
  • There is no safe level of lead exposure; but lead is added to turmeric (a spice used in cooking in South East Asia) to give it a yellow color – and it may be in spices in NYC.
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Tuesday Links

Posted on August 2, 2022August 2, 2022 by John C. Goodman

These are from Heritage:           

  • Haislmaier: Since the Obamacare subsidy extension for three more years will have no effect on premiums, or on the number of people with health insurance, it will transfer $64 billion into the pockets of the insurers at taxpayer expense.
  • Moffitt: Private sector competition in the market for Medicare prescription drug coverage is working much better than anyone expected; CBO: replacing that system with price controls will result in fewer drugs, fewer cures and fewer lives saved.
  • Badger:  Letting the Obamacare subsidies expire not only would save money, there would be no loss of Americans with individual health insurance coverage.
  • Schaefer: Using the VA system as a guide, if Medicare imposes drug price controls seniors should expect less access to critical drugs and treatments than they have today.
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