Financing Health Care Reform
Statement prepared for Senate Finance Committee roundtable on financing healthcare reform, May 12, 2009 Leonard Burman
The latest statistics show that 46 million Americans were uninsured in 2007. Health care costs threaten to bankrupt the nation if we can't figure out a way to slow their growth and pay for the government's growing share. Adding to the government's unfunded health care obligations would be reckless and irresponsible. This testimony before the Senate Finance Committee discusses some issues involved in measuring the impact of health care financing options, describes an option to pay for universal health care cov-erage with a value added tax (VAT), and examines several incremental options to pay for all or part of health care coverage expansions.
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Health Reform, Where Life Imitates Art
A TaxVox blog post by Leonard Burman
On Tuesday, I participated in a Health Care Financing Roundtable at the Senate Finance Committee. Instead of the usual hearing format, a baker’s dozen of experts sat at a long table and waited to field questions.
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