Dealing with the Original Sin Driving Health Costs


 

Publication Date: July 2008

Publisher: Tax Policy Center

Author(s): C. Eugene Steuerle

Research Area: Health

Keywords: Children; Child Health; Tax Policy; Health and Health Care

Type: Report

Abstract:

In budget policy, myths are progress's number one enemy. One silly fiction now making the rounds is that we don't know how to judge the relative value of different types of health care, so we can't control health care costs-at least not for now. Like many myths, this one contains an element of truth-there is a lot we don't know. So what? It's still a myth that we know too little to act.