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JackRabbit Café: "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009."
The Caucus: House Democrats Provide Income Surtax Details
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The Hollywood Liberal: Daily Pulse on Health Care Politics
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire: Daily Pulse on Health Care Politics
"America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009."
JackRabbit Café —
Maybe now we're getting somewhere. The Washington Post's Ezra Klein, who has been covering health care reform for the paper, sounds cautiously optimistic about today's release of the House health care ...
House Democrats Provide Income Surtax Details
The Caucus —
WASHINGTON — House Democrats have proposed an income surtax on the highest wage-earners to help pay for a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system. The proposal, which has little support in the Senate, would generate roughly $550 billion over 10 years. Here’s how it would work, according to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee: The surtax, starting in 2011, would be calculated through a series of building blocks, beginning with a 1 percent tax on income exceeding $350,000 for couples and $280,000 for individuals. So a couple earning $500,000 would pay 1 ...
Top Teirs Tax History
Newshoggers.com —
... Elected officials have finally figured out where to find some money. Like Willie Sutton they finally noticed where most of the money is: rich people. ...
Daily Pulse on Health Care Politics
The Hollywood Liberal —
Daily Pulse on Health Care Politics House Democrats released their proposed health care reform package yesterday and all the coverage focuses on who pays for it. New York Times : “House Democratic leaders took a big step toward guaranteeing health insurance for most Americans on Tuesday as they unveiled a bill that detailed how they would expand coverage, slow the growth of Medicare, raise taxes on high-income people and penalize employers who do not provide health benefits to their workers.” Washington Post : “House Democrats announced a plan yesterday that would force the richest 2 million U.S. taxpayers to shoulder much of the cost of ...
Daily Pulse on Health Care Politics
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
House Democrats released their proposed health care reform package yesterday and all the coverage focuses on who pays for it.
New York Times: "House Democratic leaders took a big step toward guaranteeing health insurance for most Americans on Tuesday as they unveiled a bill that detailed how they would expand coverage, slow the growth of Medicare, raise taxes on high-income people and penalize employers who do not provide health benefits to their workers."
Washington Post: "House Democrats announced a plan yesterday that would force the richest 2 million U.S. taxpayers to shoulder much of the cost of an expansion of the nation's ...
Reason Morning Links: Day Two of Sotomayor Hearings, Dems Lay Out Tax Plan To Fund Obama Car; Chicken Fights in the Cities
Hit & Run —
... • House outlines plan to fund Obamacare. Includes an extra $1,500 tax on families making more than $500,000 per year; $9,000 on families making more than $1 million. Employers with a payroll over $400,000 who don't provide health insurance would pay a fine equal to 8 percent of wages. ...
Positive reaction to the House Democrats' health-care plan
The Reaction —
By Michael J.W. Stickings House Democrats released their long-awaited health-care reform bill yesterday, and the plan it proposes includes a government-run component (a so-called "public option"). No, it's not exactly the single-payer, universal system that many of us prefer (and that we have here in Canada), but it's comprehensive and ground-breaking, and likely would ensure coverage for the vast majority of Americans -- in fact, almost all of them. The right, of course, is already objecting both to the public option, which it deems to be socialism, and to the fact that taxes ...
What a novel idea
Suburban Guerrilla —
When collecting taxes, go where the money is.
House Democratic leaders took a big step toward guaranteeing health insurance for most Americans on Tuesday as they unveiled a bill that detailed how they would expand coverage, slow the growth of Medicare, raise taxes on high-income people and penalize employers who do not provide health benefits to their workers.
[...] Starting in 2011, a family making $500,000 would have to pay $1,500 in additional income tax to help subsidize coverage for the uninsured. A family making $1 million would have to pay ...
Senate Committee to Complete Health Care Bill
The Caucus —
The Senate health committee on Wednesday will complete its drafting of legislation to revamp the American health care system , the first of three major health care bills to be voted out of committee and a significant achievement for Senator Christopher J. Dodd , Democrat of Connecticut, the acting committee chairman. Mr. Dodd has been filling in for his friend, Senator Edward M. Kennedy , Democrat of Massachusetts, who is battling brain cancer . And at various points, it seemed that Mr. Kennedy’s illness had really slowed the committee’s efforts to draft a health care overhaul. The committee vote, expected at 10 a.m., is expected ...
Health Care Reform Can Be Fully Funded by Euphemisms
Hit & Run —
House Democrats have found a way to provide medical coverage to the uninsured without new borrowing, spending cuts, or tax hikes. The New York Times reports that "Democrats said the cost would be fully offset by proposed savings in Medicare and other health programs and by revenue-raising changes in federal tax laws."
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Senate Committee Approves Health Care Bill
The Caucus —
Voting on strict party lines, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved a bill on Wednesday to revamp the nation’s health care system, as Democrats said that the legislation held the promise of more universal health coverage and more effective and affordable medical care while Republicans argued that the measure was unaffordable and would lead not to better care but to the denial of it. The committee vote was 13 to 10. The acting committee chairman, Senator Christopher J. Dodd , Democrat of Connecticut, had made clear from the start that his panel would bend little when it came to the top priorities of Senate Democrats ...
Failure to (Turd) Blossom, Leading to a Digression on Interests and Values
The Monkey Cage —
“Failure to Blossom” is the title of Ronald Brownstein’s excellent “re-review” of a series of books published after the 2004 election. I’ve added “turd” to the title for two reasons: (1) I wanted to use the word “turd” in a blog post title and (2) the subhead of Brownstein’s piece:
Why did so many smart writers believe that Karl Rove’s vision would succeed—and that Democrats had to mimic it?
I really like the idea of re-reviewing books after the fact. The books Brownstein reviews got a lot of things wrong. And there are various lessons ...
Taxing the Rich To Pay for Health Care, Part Two
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
by Conor Clarke Democrats in the House of Representatives unveiled their version of a health care bill yesterday afternoon, and the Congressional Budget Office released its preliminary analysis of the costs and benefits. If you sympathize with the case for universal health care, it's an occasion to be happy: the CBO says bill will leave 97% of the legal population insured by 2019. (I haven't read all of the summaries, much less the bill, so I'll happily outsource further thoughts to my former colleagues Jonathan Cohn and Ezra Klein. If you are a masochist, the full bill is here.) But the million dollar question -- excuse me, the trillion ...
Paying for Healthcare by Destroying the Economy
The Corner on National Review Online —
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 [image] Paying for Healthcare by Destroying the Economy [ Veronique de Rugy ] That' pretty much the plan laid out by House Democratic leaders. In order to pay for the $1 trillion health-care plan, they won't be cutting spending (it's probably too 1990s for today's lawmakers) but they will be imposing new taxes surtaxes in fact and fees and penalties. Finally, America will become like its European counterparts, a place where it's painful to work hard and be rewarded for it. Read this New York Times article about how the plan will be paid for and cry. A sample: Starting in 2011, a family making $500,000 would have to ...
The Anti-Tax Ideology
Obsidian Wings —
by publius
I’ve made a lot of snarky references lately about how various Republican policies are really about helping rich people. As I plan to continue this line of snark, I should probably back it up with some substance. And the surtax debate gives me a good opportunity to do that.
Before I do, I should tell you about the ...
MSNBC Host Calls Out Pence’s Lie That House Health Care Bill Will Cost ‘$1 Trillion In Higher Taxes’
Think Progress —
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) has taken a leading role in the Republican efforts to lie and fearmonger about the Democrats’ health care plans in hopes of killing it. Last May, Pence argued the public option “will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage,” a claim PolitiFact.com deemed to be “false.”
Pence was at it again this morning on MSNBC. This time, he claimed that the House health care bill recently scored by the Congressional Budget Office “will literally cost nearly a trillion dollars in higher taxes.” Host Carlos Watson immediately ...
