Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Health Reform: ‘Income Redistribution’ or Safety Net? - Health Blog - WSJ

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By Shirley S. Wang

Efforts to provide universal health insurance will result in higher premiums for the young and healthy in order to subsidize the older and sicker, according to an op-ed piece in today’s WSJ.

Such a move is essentially income redistribution, argue the authors Michael Leavitt, former secretary of Health and Human Services, and Al Hubbard and Keith Hennessey, who both served as past directors of the White House National Economic Council.
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