How about a 2% tax on outpatient health care services

[Tony_FLADEM]

Would it be a good idea to have a 2% tax on outpatient health care services to fund health care reform? You could argue that this tax could bring down the cost of health care because this would be an incentive to avoid the tax. Thus, any effects of the tax could be negated through reduced costs.

[havocmom]

1. um, that would hit poor and working classes hardest

and they are the ones needing help the most.

Back to the drawing board.

Tax the rich.

[Tony_FLADEM]

7. If the poor and working class received health insurance and affordable

prices then it would be worth it.

[havocmom]

8. Go back and brush up on your math

The gap between rich and poor is growing. The middle class is shrinking. The rich need to pay more taxes. Period.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. The best way to cut healthcare costs is to get rid of the middle-man: insurance syndicates. n/t

[marybourg]

3. No. Then all care would become "inpatient". nt.

[Oregone]

4. How about taxing everyone, based on income and dependents?

Seems to have worked in the past.

[Thothmes]

12. Probably the only sane way to fund a national

health program, but unlikley. To many Dems fear the tax and spend moniker that gets tagged on them every election. JMO

[havocmom]

5. How 'bout a high excise tax on vanity plastic surgery?

And raise other taxes back up to a reasonable level on the top INCOMES not just wage earners.

[valerief]

6. How about bringing back the pre-Reagan tax code? nt

[havocmom]

9. America was doing better in the 60s

and taxes were high

[Thothmes]

13. Of course taxes were high

We had things to do. Thousands of miles of concrete freeway to be laid down before the end of the decade as part of the interstate highway program.
Get a man on the moon before the end of the decade. President Kennedy decreed that we would do that. NASA had an open checkbook to make it happen.
And my favorite 1960s project was President Johnsons launching of a major land war in Vietnam. This project also had an open checkbook to ensure victory over those dirty reds. Of course there were some other less grandiose projects, medicare comes to mind. Needed the tax dollars to spend for these.

[ColbertWatcher]

10. That's a great idea. n/t

[H2O Man]

11. No, thank you.

But I'd favor a 4% tax on any proposals that hurt the poor.