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Replacing Obamacare——Cost-sharing is caring

  As republican conGREssmen were berated by constituents this week for their desire to repeal the Affordable Care Act , wonks in Washington continued to work on a replacement.Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, has promised a health-care bill soon after politicians return from their districts on February 27th.If they are to cool the protesters' zeal, Republicans must keep health insurance affordable for everyone who already has it.That means deciding what to do about the subsidies Obamacare gives to 10m low- and middle-earners who buy coverage through government-run websites.Mr Ryan promises to replace the law's means-tested tax credits with a discount for everyone, varying not with income but with age.Would such a switch work?Republicans have always hated the ACA's handouts.Because they shrink if people earn more, they discourage toil.The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that Obamacare reduces the total number of hours worked by 1.5-2%, which is equivalent to 2.5m full-time jobs by 2024.Making tax credits universal would lessen that number.And because the old pay more for health insurance than the young—a gap that will widen if the Republicans loosen restrictive pricing regulations—increasing subsidies with age makes some sense.Such a tax credit, though, would not be generous enough for all buyers.The average Obamacare subsidy adds up to about $3,600 per person.Many receive much more.Two non-smoking 55-year-olds together earning $56,500, the median household income, get $4,800 each just to help pay for premiums, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a think-tank.According to The Economist's calculations, if Mr Ryan spread the cash around all 22m Americans who buy health insurance directly, rather than through their employer, it would average only about $2,000 each.That is close to what Tom Price, the new health secretary, proposed in 2015 for 35-to 49-year-olds (older folk would have got $3,000).Republicans say it is enough, because costs will fall once insurance is deregulated.

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廢除奧巴馬醫(yī)改：成本分?jǐn)偭钊岁P(guān)注

  當(dāng)希望廢除平價(jià)醫(yī)保法案的共和黨議員在本周飽受選民責(zé)備時(shí)，華盛頓的政策專家們?nèi)栽谥铝τ跀M定一項(xiàng)替代方案。眾議院議長(zhǎng)保羅·瑞恩(Paul Ryan)承諾政客們2月27日從選區(qū)返回后不久就會(huì)推出新的醫(yī)療保健法案。要想平息眾怒，共和黨人必須使每一個(gè)已經(jīng)擁有健康保險(xiǎn)的人負(fù)擔(dān)得起。這意味著要妥善處理一千萬中低收入者從奧巴馬醫(yī)改計(jì)劃中獲得的補(bǔ)貼，他們之前從政府網(wǎng)站購(gòu)買了保險(xiǎn)。瑞恩先生承諾用給予個(gè)人的優(yōu)惠——其額度不隨收入而隨年齡有所變化，來替換基于收入的稅收抵免政策。這樣的轉(zhuǎn)變會(huì)有效果嗎?共和黨人一貫討厭ACA的政府撥款。因?yàn)槿绻藗兪杖朐蕉?，撥款就越少，他們不鼓?lì)辛勤的勞動(dòng)。國(guó)會(huì)預(yù)算辦公室估計(jì)，奧巴馬醫(yī)改計(jì)劃使總工作小時(shí)數(shù)減少1.5-2%，相當(dāng)于250萬份做到2024年的全職工作。推行稅收抵免會(huì)減小此數(shù)字。而且和年輕人相比，老年人會(huì)花更多錢買醫(yī)療保險(xiǎn)，如果共和黨人放寬對(duì)價(jià)格規(guī)定的限制，差距還會(huì)擴(kuò)大，因此根據(jù)年齡增加補(bǔ)貼就顯得合理。然而，這樣的稅收抵免對(duì)所有投保人來說都不夠慷概。奧巴馬醫(yī)療計(jì)劃的人均補(bǔ)助是3600美元。許多人可以拿到更多。根據(jù)凱瑟家庭基金會(huì)——一個(gè)智囊機(jī)構(gòu)所說，兩個(gè)55歲的非吸煙者，其總工資按中等家庭收入56500美元來算，每人可以獲得4800美元以支付保險(xiǎn)費(fèi)。根據(jù)經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人的計(jì)算，如果瑞恩先生不通過雇主，而是直接給2200萬購(gòu)買過醫(yī)療保險(xiǎn)的人發(fā)放現(xiàn)金的話，人均只能得到2000美元。這接近于湯姆·普萊斯(Tom Price)——新的衛(wèi)生部長(zhǎng)在2015年提出的為35到49歲人群提供的補(bǔ)貼水平(年紀(jì)更大的人本來可以得到3000美元)。共和黨人說這就足夠了，因?yàn)橐坏┍ｋU(xiǎn)放松管制，成本便會(huì)下降。

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