It may be one of the most deceptive public policy marketing schemes in modern history. First, pick the most popular health insurance program in the country, which is Medicare. Then call your health insurance reform proposal “Medicare for All,” even though the intent is to eliminate the Medicare program as we know it, so that no one would have that coverage anymore.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Can Social Security be Saved by Taxing the Rich?
If Congress confiscated every one of the … $1.2 trillion after-tax dollars earned above $1 million, the resulting revenue would have fallen nearly $600 billion short of covering the cost of the 2023 $1.8 trillion calendar-year deficit. Dropping the taxable income threshold to $500,000 would also have fallen just short of covering the same year’s deficit. And these estimates make the wildly unrealistic assumption that a 100 percent marginal tax rate would have no behavioral or other economic effects.
Source: Mark Tapscott, Cato Institute
Benefits of College
If you have a bachelor’s degree and are over 25 years of age, your chance of being married is 64 percent. If you have only a high school degree, your odds of being married are an even 50 percent.
Source: Tyler Cowen
Wednesday Links – 9 September 2026
- UHC is pouring money into top ranking democrat’s campaign.
- Real median income under Trump is still up by roughly $2,000.
- Scientists can gene edit to produce a better dog. (NYT)
- Absent unwise regulations, nuclear power would have cost about one-tenth as much by 2015. The additional generation could have avoided as many as 9.5 million premature deaths.