April 15, 2009
Photoblogging Today's Tea Party: Rhode Island's Medical Taxes
Carroll Andrew Morse
The most substantive signs of the day came from a pair of nurses who turned out to protest the recent tax increase on medical expenses…
One of the protesting nurses was kind enough to provide some additional detail…
I work at Toll Gate radiology, I schedule all the exams. There's a 2% tax increase for all the patients that come in, they end up spending 2% and it kind of defeats the purpose. They end up paying a lot more to get testing that they need to have done. Even with their co-payments, they end up paying $125 more than they should have to go in for a CAT scan.
Comments
this one is a real joke. cut medicare spending and many in health care jobs would be out of work.
Posted by: ernie at April 17, 2009 1:24 AMThe next time someone complains about healthcare and suggests "government-run" healthcare, remind them that the government already taxes them on their existing healthcare.
Posted by: Anthony at April 17, 2009 11:04 PM