Representatives of the Association of American Planners applauded the Supreme Court’s health-care decision that a Congressional requirement to buy health insurance was a tax, not a mandate. “This provides us the tools we need to fix everything that’s wrong with America,” said association CEO Paul “Precious” Farmlands.
The association’s government affairs staff immediately began crafting legislation to save American cities and rural areas through compact development. “We would like everyone to enjoy the benefits of living in high-density, mixed-use housing,” said Jason Georgetown. “But it’s not a mandate; we’ll simply tax anyone who chooses not to live in this kind of housing $50,000 a year. The taxes will go to make high-density housing more affordable for low-income people.”
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AAP also was writing a law requiring everyone to walk, bicycle, or take transit to work. Anyone who refused to obey the law would pay a “tax” of $25 for every day they drove to work. The money would be used to subsidize rail transit. “The possibilities opened up by the Supreme Court’s health-care decision are endless,” said Georgetown.
Do you have a source for the above quotes? I’d certainly like to read more as the quote above are very troubling.
While I’m a supporter of most provisions in the Affordable Care Act the court had to establish new precedence today, and that is always scary (highlighted by the Georgetown quote). However, I don’t think his legislation would stand a chance in congress.
My bad. Yuck, yuck.
bennett – borrow a step ladder and reread the blog.
Good one…. surely it is somewhere on the list of “global-warming-fighting” initiatives.
With this ruling, Portland could create a tax on everyone who sees public art.
Oh wait, they already did that, but they also included blind people.
Oh, Sandy. Don’t you think that blind people can experience public art, too? Or are you a sightist?
/sarc
Excellent point! 🙂
Let me point out that I generally agree with the Antiplanners position on most planning issues.
However, I am disappointed in the Antiplanners extrapolation of one ruling to try to critique another. One problem with the current health care system is that the law requires emergency rooms to treat anyone without insurance. That means that those of us who pay for insurance have to subsidize those who choose not to buy it.
It is arguable that this ruling could be interpreted to make those who choose not to buy gasoline and therefore not pay the gas tax that is used to subsidize transit, bike lanes, light rail etc. should be forced to start paying equivalent taxes for those subsidize.
Paul said
One problem with the current health care system is that the law requires emergency rooms to treat anyone without insurance.
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The problem with politicians fixing a problem, is the unintended consequences of their actions, laws and mandates!
They create new problems, when they fix an old problem and then act like they are smart enough to create legislation to fix the new problems they created.
While blaming everyone else
The Emergency Room problem is a false problem and one of gov’s own making. It was probably intentional as the ER’s will be paid from tax money and cry all the way to the bank. When they said ER’s should treat everyone, they could have easily required ERs to provide space for walk-in clinics, preferably subbed out. Immediate access to ER for those that need it, and $100 medical bills for pink-eye rather than the $2000 ER bill for same. With $100 med bills all problems, including collections become much easier.
Nearly all of our health care problems would be solved with the gov out of the way and equal tax treatment for all. It is preposterous that you can get a $10K insurance policy tax free from an employer but cannot get the money tax free to purchase your own. Those who work for small companies would be able to pool with big outfits, e.g. AAA, YMCA, churches, etc. Further, for nearly all of us, major medical is the preferred plan with us paying directly for routine visits (pink-eye), which would greatly lower medical costs. Around 40% of today’s office visit cost is for insurance paperwork and bureaucrats.
I’m an old guy and most of my life I had no health insurance. I paid $10-25/visit to my doctor who treated poor people for free. My neighbor was a doctor who did the same. My doctor drew blood himself and performed minor surgery in his office, all of which has now been regulated out of existence. One of my children had major surgery in a hospital with huge bills I could not pay, and the hospital and doctors set up a payment plan for me and I paid them over 12-15 years with easy payments.
As recently as 3 years ago I found an MD who charged me $50-75/visit when paid immediately. On the last visit he charged me $125 and when I complained he reduced it to my old rate of $75 for the visit but said it would be $125 in the future. I shopped and found one for $100/visit but have not needed it yet. I visited a 24/7 clinic at 2am on a Sunday morning and was charged $125.
If our health care system were free of gov and regulations and equal tax treatment, it would be much better and cheaper, and we are so wealthy that we could readily afford to provide financial support to those in poor health and really in need our community support. Now, how to get the funds to those in need is beyond the scope of this epistle.
I was in a similar boat for many years of my life. I gashed open my leg and needed about 10 stitches. I went to our local clinic and got fixed up. What surprised me was there were about 5 different bill totals depending on how payment was received. If I had private insurance the total bill would have been $1,700. If I had medicaid there was another total the doctor that was a little less. Paying cash (check) the total was just under $800. The doctor informed me that if for some reason they treated me and then I could not pay they would have itemized my visit at around $3,000 or as high as they could get it for tax purposes.
She agreed with me that this was nuts. There are fixed costs. The cost of the doctors time, the use of the tools and facilities and the medicine and stitches. Seems like it should be straight forward. But because of insurance companies and government programs alike she has to hire a small army of administrators to sort everything out.