Comments on: PUH_LEASE! Nonsensical Tax Attacks Re SCOTUS ACA Decision

By: Misaki

Misaki — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:34:45 +0000

>If you don’t have insurance and you get treatment for your illness, that’s uncompensated care, which I’ll pay for.

Hospitals will generally bill the recipient of the health care. When the costs cannot be recovered, then yes, states do pay some of the costs for things like unpaid emergency room bills.

By: save_the_rustbelt

save_the_rustbelt — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:30:07 +0000

PPACA will fail because it is too complicated and convoluted to implement in any orderly manner.

By: Don Levit

Don Levit — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:49:35 +0000

The payments are not taxes, in my opinion.
Social Security passed constitutional muster, primarily because the payments were deemed taxes, for the general welfare.
The money went into the Treasury’s general fund, like all other taxes.
And, no citizen could tie his benefits to his specific contributions, thus a tax for the “general welfare.”
Here, the “taxes” may go to the Treasury’s general fund, but that is merely a convenient conduit to provide the subsidies to the for-profit insurers for their expensive health insurance.
Yes, the citizens can then but health insurance, but the first beneficiary is the for-profit insurers. Their direct cut from the “taxes” would never have materialized except for the “taxes.”
Don Levit

By: Ellis

Ellis — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:11:32 +0000

I guess the health insurance companies wrote a fantastic bill. Yes, the two presidential candidates each pushed through similar laws to profit the medical industrial complex. That makes Obama and Romney twins. Oh, and by the way, just because you pay for insurance, you are not guaranteed actual medical care. That’s the beauty of it.

By: Jared Bernstein

Jared Bernstein — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:47:47 +0000

Good for the reporter for being informed!

By: progrowth liberal

progrowth liberal — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:09:41 +0000

Update as I listen to the CBS Morning Show. Romney claims this is $500 billion tax increase, which got Sarah Palin rolling as she changed the claim to a $1 trillion tax increase. CBS reporter comes back telling us how many millions of Americans will pay the penalty – 4 million. In other words, 1.3% of the population … like you said!

By: progrowth liberal

progrowth liberal — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:51:46 +0000

Jared – thanks for this very well done rebuttal!

By: davesnyd

davesnyd — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:35:47 +0000

But I thought Republicans liked to increase taxes on people below the top 20% brackets?