{"id":374,"date":"2020-08-05T11:11:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayling.tech\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2020-08-05T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:11:53","slug":"means-testing-and-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2020\/means-testing-and-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Means testing and taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes the thing that seems obvious, is just not worth the effort. Means testing is often the case for this. Consider: Medicaid and Medicare in the USA cost the same as the whole of the UK&#8217;s healthcare system, even though they only cover select groups*.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, free college is not worth means-testing. This is only a short article because I wanted to draw your attention to this interesting piece by Christopher Keelty: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/christopherkeelty.com\/on-free-college-for-billionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\">On free college for billionaires<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source of claims about the cost of healthcare in the USA compared to the UK<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cost of the UK&#8217;s healthcare system (the NHS): \u00a32,989 per person (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/healthandsocialcare\/healthcaresystem\/articles\/howdoesukhealthcarespendingcomparewithothercountries\/2019-08-29\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>)<\/li><li>Cost of the UK&#8217;s healthcare system (the NHS): $3,926.05 (as at today&#8217;s date)<\/li><li>Cost of Medicare and Medicaid: $4,105 per person (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/articles\/personal-finance\/082015\/how-much-medicaid-and-medicare-cost-americans.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>)<\/li><li>Cost of healthcare per person in USA: $10,739\u00a0(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/health-expenditures.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the thing that seems obvious, is just not worth the effort. Means testing is often the case for this. Consider: Medicaid and Medicare in the USA cost the same as the whole of the UK&#8217;s healthcare system, even though they only cover select groups*. Similarly, free college is not worth means-testing. This is only a short article because I wanted to draw your attention to this interesting piece by Christopher Keelty: On free college for billionaires. Source of claims&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2020\/means-testing-and-taxes\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copy","tag-healthcare","tag-nhs","tag-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}