- Title Pages
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Chapter 1 The Health Care Reform Legislation -
Chapter 2 The Simple Economics of Health Reform -
Chapter 3 The Economics, Opportunities, and Challenges of Health Insurance Exchanges -
Chapter 4 Can the ACA Improve Population Health? -
Chapter 5 Systemic Reform of Health Care Delivery and Payment -
Chapter 6 How Stable Are Insurance Subsidies in Health Reform? -
Chapter 7 Financial Regulatory Reform -
Chapter 8 Government Guarantees -
Chapter 9 How Little We Know -
Chapter 10 Finding the Sweet Spot for Effective Regulation -
Chapter 11 A Recipe for Ratings Reform -
Chapter 12 Should Banker Pay Be Regulated? -
Chapter 13 Fixing Bankers’ Pay -
Chapter 14 It Works for Mergers, Why Not for Finance? -
Chapter 15 Hedge Fund Wizards -
Chapter 16 Investment Banking Regulation After Bear Stearns -
Chapter 17 Why Paulson Is Wrong -
Chapter 18 Dr. StrangeLoan -
Chapter 19 Questioning the Treasury’s $700 Billion Blank Check -
Chapter 20 Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan -
Chapter 21 A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis -
Chapter 22 Please Think This Over -
Chapter 23 Is Macroeconomics Off Track? -
Chapter 24 If It Were a Fight, They Would Have Stopped It in December of 2008 -
Chapter 25 Comment on Barbera -
Chapter 26 Pension Security Bonds -
Chapter 27 Carbon Taxes to Move Toward Fiscal Sustainability -
Chapter 28 Net Neutrality Is Bad Broadband Regulation -
Chapter 29 Trills Instead of T-Bills -
Chapter 30 The Google Book Settlement -
Chapter 31 The Stakes in the Google Book Search Settlement -
Chapter 32 The NFL Should Auction Possession in Overtime Games - Index
How Stable Are Insurance Subsidies in Health Reform?
How Stable Are Insurance Subsidies in Health Reform?
- Chapter:
- (p.46) Chapter 6 How Stable Are Insurance Subsidies in Health Reform?
- Source:
- The Economists' Voice 2.0
- Author(s):
Mark V. Pauly
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This chapter addresses the question of whether key features of health reform dealing with subsidies aimed at reducing the number of uninsured people are likely to represent a stable political equilibrium. It argues that the high cost of Medicare, along with other aspects of the U.S. federal budgetary problem, means that, when large subsidies for the uninsured are due to begin, taxpayers will be facing high and rising marginal tax rates to pay for Medicare and Social Security. Had they already determined that the current level of subsidies was worth the higher cost they will pay, the program embodying those subsidies should be politically stable. But if instead they come to realize how much this generous program is costing them, they may ask for better evidence on the benefits from it and, if the evidence is lacking, cut back on the program in order to hold down their overall federal taxes.
Keywords: health care reform, health care policy, health insurance subsidies, uninsured, stability, Medicare
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- Title Pages
-
Chapter 1 The Health Care Reform Legislation -
Chapter 2 The Simple Economics of Health Reform -
Chapter 3 The Economics, Opportunities, and Challenges of Health Insurance Exchanges -
Chapter 4 Can the ACA Improve Population Health? -
Chapter 5 Systemic Reform of Health Care Delivery and Payment -
Chapter 6 How Stable Are Insurance Subsidies in Health Reform? -
Chapter 7 Financial Regulatory Reform -
Chapter 8 Government Guarantees -
Chapter 9 How Little We Know -
Chapter 10 Finding the Sweet Spot for Effective Regulation -
Chapter 11 A Recipe for Ratings Reform -
Chapter 12 Should Banker Pay Be Regulated? -
Chapter 13 Fixing Bankers’ Pay -
Chapter 14 It Works for Mergers, Why Not for Finance? -
Chapter 15 Hedge Fund Wizards -
Chapter 16 Investment Banking Regulation After Bear Stearns -
Chapter 17 Why Paulson Is Wrong -
Chapter 18 Dr. StrangeLoan -
Chapter 19 Questioning the Treasury’s $700 Billion Blank Check -
Chapter 20 Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan -
Chapter 21 A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis -
Chapter 22 Please Think This Over -
Chapter 23 Is Macroeconomics Off Track? -
Chapter 24 If It Were a Fight, They Would Have Stopped It in December of 2008 -
Chapter 25 Comment on Barbera -
Chapter 26 Pension Security Bonds -
Chapter 27 Carbon Taxes to Move Toward Fiscal Sustainability -
Chapter 28 Net Neutrality Is Bad Broadband Regulation -
Chapter 29 Trills Instead of T-Bills -
Chapter 30 The Google Book Settlement -
Chapter 31 The Stakes in the Google Book Search Settlement -
Chapter 32 The NFL Should Auction Possession in Overtime Games - Index
