Ezra Klein Archive: Health Economics
The individual mandate is too good of a deal, not too bad of one
"While the eventual health care legislation is likely to be a boondoggle, it at least holds out the hope of partially remedying the present system’s worst injustice," writes Ross Douthat on his new blog. "The way our mix of semi-free...
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November 18, 2009; 12:52 PM ET |
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Why do employers want to continue providing health-care benefits?
One of my standard questions when I talk to business types is why does your business, or any business, want responsibility for your employees' health-care coverage? After all, businesses aren't interested in their employees' housing decisions, or their choice...
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November 18, 2009; 10:21 AM ET |
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Joint Tax Committee: Excise tax raises workers' wages by $313 billion
In our chat yesterday, economist Jon Gruber mentioned that the excise tax is projected to raise worker wages by $313 billion between 2010 and 2019. That seemed, well, high. But it checks out. The numbers come from the Joint Committee...
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November 13, 2009; 5:35 PM ET |
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In a world with a broken Congress ...
Fred Hiatt's column today calls the House's health-care reform bill "a step closer to bankruptcy." But he's not really talking about the House's health-care reform bill, which he admits the Congressional Budget Office has assessed as not only deficit neutral...
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November 9, 2009; 4:58 PM ET |
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Can Congress control costs?
One of the more sophisticated arguments against health-care reform is that for all the sharp policies and elegant initiatives contained in the bill, none of it will work because Congress will vote to roll back the cost savings. The...
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November 6, 2009; 5:17 PM ET |
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The progressive case for the excise tax
Art Levine has a good post on the AFL-CIO's opposition to taxing insurance benefits. He links to an ad they've released (pdf) that says, in bold letters, "IT IS JUST WRONG TO PUT THE BURDEN OF PAYING FOR HEALTH-CARE...
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November 5, 2009; 12:41 PM ET |
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