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Category: Policy & Legislation

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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Is Medical Debt Bad? Sometimes; Sometimes Not

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Devon Herrick

Millions of people struggle with medical indebtedness. Millions more are thought to forgo care or put off treatment, hoping to avoid medical bills. The nonprofit media, Kaiser Health News, published extensive surveys on medical debt in 2022. According to National Public Radio (NPR):

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Tuesday Links

Posted on March 7, 2023March 7, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Does lead in the air affect learning in school?
  • Stephen Pinker: The development of artificial general intelligence is incoherent and not achievable.
  • Increased access to physicians results in better health – at least in Nigeria.
  • If the estimates from Statista Consumer Marketing Research are accurate, from 2020 to 2022 the world bought 928 billion masks at a cost of $389 billion — most of them made of plastic. I wonder how much of the plastic ended up in the ocean?
  • Oops. The Inflation Reduction Act will increase taxes on millions of Americans earning less than $400,000, despite the president’s repeated promises not to do that. And that’s only for starters.
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Monday Links

Posted on March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • The IRA bill threatens orphan drugs.
  • Study finds links between the popular zero-calorie sugar substitute erythritol and an increased risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attack and stroke.
  • But the study has limits. (NYT)
  • Death on demand: Canadian euthanasia is killing about 27 people a day on average — over 10,000 a year.
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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.

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