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		<title>By: huang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: husnain</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/07/health-care-and-income-inequality/#comment-26449</link>
		<dc:creator>husnain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;They have great topics like this one on <a href="http://www.energytalkradio.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.energytalkradio.com</a> and donate 30% to charity!  Check them out.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: stephen</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/07/health-care-and-income-inequality/#comment-26448</link>
		<dc:creator>stephen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anne&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You are definitely right about the ambiguity. I can&#039;t tell exactly what they meant by &quot;financed out of household income&quot;. Are they referring to people whipping out the credit card or dipping into personal savings, or are they including premiums and medicare/medicaid payments in the income definition? I took it to mean the former and you are making a good case for the latter, in which case it it does seem like a hard circle to square.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I should say however, if I remember correctly, the inequality calculation does not include tax transfers, which would definitely include Medicare and Medicaid which accounts for about %50 of all health care spending. I have no idea, though, if employer paid premiums are included. Either way your point is well taken.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anne</p>
<p>You are definitely right about the ambiguity. I can&#39;t tell exactly what they meant by &#8220;financed out of household income&#8221;. Are they referring to people whipping out the credit card or dipping into personal savings, or are they including premiums and medicare/medicaid payments in the income definition? I took it to mean the former and you are making a good case for the latter, in which case it it does seem like a hard circle to square.</p>
<p>I should say however, if I remember correctly, the inequality calculation does not include tax transfers, which would definitely include Medicare and Medicaid which accounts for about %50 of all health care spending. I have no idea, though, if employer paid premiums are included. Either way your point is well taken.</p>
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		<title>By: anne from Chicago</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/07/health-care-and-income-inequality/#comment-26447</link>
		<dc:creator>anne from Chicago</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Stephen for the link.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;However,  in that the amount paid by the employer is now being considered as an employee&#039;s &quot;income&quot; which could be taxed (depending on what happens with health care reform) does this chart still hold?  (Doesn&#039;t seem like it, in that the chart shows the consumer&#039;s out-of-pocket expenses, not total cost.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The employer provided health care payments are being held as a reason why wages have remained stagnant over time - health premiums are taking a bigger chunk out of the cost per employee, so less gets funneled as salary, which is certainly a cost to the consumer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Stephen for the link.</p>
<p>However,  in that the amount paid by the employer is now being considered as an employee&#39;s &#8220;income&#8221; which could be taxed (depending on what happens with health care reform) does this chart still hold?  (Doesn&#39;t seem like it, in that the chart shows the consumer&#39;s out-of-pocket expenses, not total cost.)</p>
<p>The employer provided health care payments are being held as a reason why wages have remained stagnant over time &#8211; health premiums are taking a bigger chunk out of the cost per employee, so less gets funneled as salary, which is certainly a cost to the consumer.</p>
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		<title>By: dg lesvic</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/07/health-care-and-income-inequality/#comment-26446</link>
		<dc:creator>dg lesvic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What is the point of talking about inequality if you don&#039;t know whether it&#039;s a good or bad thing, or, if good, how much of it is good?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is the point of talking about inequality if you don&#39;t know whether it&#39;s a good or bad thing, or, if good, how much of it is good?</p>
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		<title>By: stephen</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/07/health-care-and-income-inequality/#comment-26445</link>
		<dc:creator>stephen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>About % 90 of health care consumption, in the U S of A,  is paid for by third parties. That is up from about % 50 in the 1950&#039;s. It is a pretty well known trend. You can check out these charts, the data comes from the OECD Healthcare Database.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.piie.com/realtime/?p=595&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.piie.com/realtime/?p=595&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About % 90 of health care consumption, in the U S of A,  is paid for by third parties. That is up from about % 50 in the 1950&#39;s. It is a pretty well known trend. You can check out these charts, the data comes from the OECD Healthcare Database.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.piie.com/realtime/?p=595" rel="nofollow">http://www.piie.com/realtime/?p=595</a></p>
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		<title>By: anne from Chicago</title>
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		<dc:creator>anne from Chicago</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;As health care has claimed a growing share of consumption, the percentage of care that is financed out of household incomes has declined.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#039;d really like to see the source for this stat.  Sounds removed from the reality I see people struggling with in my neck of the woods.  Especially after Bush&#039;s push for &quot;consumer driven health care&quot; and employers&#039; passing on more health care expenses to employees.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;As health care has claimed a growing share of consumption, the percentage of care that is financed out of household incomes has declined.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#39;d really like to see the source for this stat.  Sounds removed from the reality I see people struggling with in my neck of the woods.  Especially after Bush&#39;s push for &#8220;consumer driven health care&#8221; and employers&#39; passing on more health care expenses to employees.</p>
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		<title>By: dg lesvic</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/07/health-care-and-income-inequality/#comment-26443</link>
		<dc:creator>dg lesvic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What should be our goal, no inequality at all?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Or, if some, how much?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What should be our goal, no inequality at all?</p>
<p>Or, if some, how much?</p>
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