真是奇怪的法案，                            

未來任何沒有工作或負擔不起

而不幸生病的人

都會受要相當的照顧；

反之最健康的小康之家

將要負擔最重的健保費。

（至於真正的有錢人，

大概都會移民海外吧。）

這根本就是在變相懲罰努力維護健康的人，

並且鼓勵人們一生病就離職，

或更可怕的：

「生任何病都不怕，所以不用刻意管理自己的健康」

歐巴馬簽署新健康醫療法案

擬縮小貧富差距

 Economic Scene

In Health Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality

By DAVID LEONHARDT  Published: March 23, 2010

For all the political and economic uncertainties about health reform, at least one thing seems clear: The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government’s biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.

Over most of that period, government policy and market forces have been moving in the same direction, both increasing inequality. The pretax incomes of the wealthy have soared since the late 1970s, while their tax rates have fallen more than rates for the middle class and poor.

Nearly every major aspect of the health bill pushes in the other direction. This fact helps explain why Mr. Obama was willing to spend so much political capital on the issue, even though it did not appear to be his top priority as a presidential candidate. Beyond the health reform’s effect on the medical system, it is the centerpiece of his deliberate effort to end what historians have called the age of Reagan.

Speaking to an ebullient audience of Democratic legislators and White House aides at the bill-signing ceremony on Tuesday, Mr. Obama claimed that health reform would “mark a new season in America.” He added, “We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care.”

The bill is the most sweeping piece of federal legislation since Medicare was passed in 1965. It aims to smooth out one of the roughest edges in American society — the inability of many people to afford medical care after they lose a job or get sick. And it would do so in large measure by taxing the rich.

A big chunk of the money to pay for the bill comes from lifting payroll taxes on households making more than $250,000. On average, the annual tax bill for households making more than $1 million a year will rise by $46,000 in 2013, according to the Tax Policy Center, a Washington research group. Another major piece of financing would cut Medicare subsidies for private insurers, ultimately affecting their executives and shareholders.

原文（全）連結： 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/business/24leonhardt.html?hp