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It's been reported that the House Democrats COVID package would increase federal Medicaid funding by 8%.

In fact, it would increase the federal matching rate by 8 percentage POINTS, which is very different -- and involves a lot more money. rules.house.gov/sites/democrat…
Eg., NY receives the minimum matching rate of 50% for most recipients. Adding 8 points to 50 would be an increase of 16% in federal funding.

On an annualized basis, NY's aid would jump more than $6B, from $40B to $46.4B. kff.org/medicaid/state…
Albany shouldn't get too excited, however, because the Republicans aren't on board. modernhealthcare.com/politics-polic…
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California is now subsidizing health insurance for residents up to 600% of the federal poverty level, $154,500 for a family of four, with complex caveats based on age, household size and location. So far, 486,000 people have qualified. californiahealthline.org/news/some-rejo…
Those subsidies are couple with an individual mandate, in the form of a tax penalty for those who fail to buy insurance (with exceptions based on religion, financial hardship, etc.) californiahealthline.org/news/californi…
This structure has been suggested in New York as a path to universal coverage that would be far less costly and disruptive than single-payer. California is giving us a chance to see it in action.
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This @MattBruenig post, which cites the RAND report on the NY Health Act in defense of single-payer, misconstrues a couple of RAND's findings. peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/08/07/the…
@MattBruenig First, the NY Health Act is not "fully funded." The bill identifies two new taxes, on payroll and non-payroll income, and says they should be progressive, but leaves the rates and brackets undetermined.
@MattBruenig In order to perform its distribution analysis, RAND was obliged to fill in the blanks with a tax structure of its own devising -- which may or may not be politically realistic.
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The problem with the liberal vision of economic growth, at least as practiced in NY, is not that we spend big on schools, health-care, mass transit, etc., but that we spend dumb, allowing too much of money to be siphoned by rent-seekers or plain wasted.

usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
If NYers had great schools and hospitals, smoothy running subways and gleaming airports, the money would be worth it.

Instead, we're stuck with the worst of both worlds: sky-high taxes and mediocre to lousy services and infrastructure.
The politicians are too paralyzed and/or corrupted to tackle the hard work of efficiency and effectiveness, so they resort to a) throwing more money at stuff and b) offsetting the poor business climate with tax breaks for a lucky few.
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