HHS released today its plan to close the doughnut hole left by the Accountable Care Act. They plan to send 250 bucks to those individuals who fall into the hole. Is this a fix? No. This is typical government fashion of trying to fix a obvious problem:
1. Ignore the obvious problems and create new ones by writing at 2500 page bill.
2. Attempt to the fix obvious problems by throwing short-term fixes.
3. We cannot fix a obvious problem by doing something simple.
I think it is kind of disgraceful to think that we have one obvious problem yet this massive bill does little to fix the problem. As well, short-term fixes like this that are not permanent tend to lead to a greater welfare government function down the road, think of alternative minimum tax.
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