24/7 Wall St. TV: Funding Healthcare, Taxing The Obese
The Administration and Congress are looking for ways to close the funding gap for the $1 trillion national health care overhaul. The hospital industry has already agreed to $155 billion in concessions and pharma companies have come through with $80…
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The hospital industry has already agreed to $155 billion in concessions and pharma companies have come through with $80 billion. That still leaves a substantial shortage.
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Taxing the obese, smokers, and drunks may be the only way to close the gap on the costs of the proposed $1 trillion health care overhaul. A proposed surtax on the rich, whether it is fair or not, will not provide enough in new receipts to the IRS.
The obese create a disproportionate amount of national health care costs. The overweight and obese are almost two-thirds of the US adult population. These citizens should not be denied health care, but they should carry their own weight by paying higher taxes to offset their costs to the system
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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.
TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.
McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.
