Health Care Subsidies

By Dave

Paul Krugman gives us this graph from the Kaiser Health Reform Subsidy Calculator

It's pretty clear reform would make health care much more accessible to those at the lower end of the economic spectrum. In fact, for those at or below the poverty line, reform will practically pay for your health insurance. From a progressive standpoint, not bad at all. Now, of course tiered subsidy rates can cause perverse incentives, depending on what's lost between the move from say, 100% and 150% of the PL. But those potential problems aside, I'd say this is pretty cool.