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both are KNOWN contributors to the cost of health care services.
More than 170,000 cases of non-melanoma skin cancer in the US each year are associated with indoor tanning.
In 2004, the total direct cost associated with the treatment for nonmelanoma skin cancer was $1.4 billion.
Skin Cancer Facts - SkinCancer.org
As part of the Affordable Care Act, tanning salon customers have 10% added to their bills for tanning services.
This tax will be used to fund insurance to uninsured Americans....
the new tanning salon tax is a "sin tax," meant to make people healthier by not going to tanning salons, thus the rationale for including it in the Health Care Bill.
Tanning Salon Excise Tax Starts July 1
In summary ACA taxes tanning salons as tanning causes cancer and the tax will do two things:
A) Hopefully reducing skin cancer and
B) the tax will be used to fund "uninsured Americans".
Sounds commendable. Reducing $1.4 billion in COSTS directly due to tanning...and funding 'uninsured Americans"..
What tanning salons and lawyers have in common are they both contribute directly to the costs of health care.
Tanning salons $1.4 billion
Lawyers contribution to health care costs $850 billion.
BUT are lawyers taxed 10% of their $270 billion a year in income as tanning salons are taxed?
Proof is 90% of physicians surveyed say they order $850 billion a year in wasted duplicate tests, referrals all out of FEAR of being SUED!
Physicians estimate the cost of defensive medicine in US at $650 to $850 billion per year
Health News Observer ? Physicians Estimate The Cost Of Defensive Medicine In Us At 650 To 850 Bill Articles
So if these experts,i.e. physicians that order duplicate tests, etc. which become CLAIMS to be paid by PAYERS add up to over $850 billion for only ONE
reason, "FEAR of being SUED"!
Physicians are under the Stark Law NOT allowed to make money by referring/ordering these tests.
So why wasn't lawyers taxed 10% and that $27 billion a year used to pay a $5,000 per year per uninsured American's health insurance?
With the proven number of less then 4 million Americans that want and need insurance that would fulfill the objective of ACA i.e. funding for the "uninsured Americans'!
More than 170,000 cases of non-melanoma skin cancer in the US each year are associated with indoor tanning.
In 2004, the total direct cost associated with the treatment for nonmelanoma skin cancer was $1.4 billion.
Skin Cancer Facts - SkinCancer.org
As part of the Affordable Care Act, tanning salon customers have 10% added to their bills for tanning services.
This tax will be used to fund insurance to uninsured Americans....
the new tanning salon tax is a "sin tax," meant to make people healthier by not going to tanning salons, thus the rationale for including it in the Health Care Bill.
Tanning Salon Excise Tax Starts July 1
In summary ACA taxes tanning salons as tanning causes cancer and the tax will do two things:
A) Hopefully reducing skin cancer and
B) the tax will be used to fund "uninsured Americans".
Sounds commendable. Reducing $1.4 billion in COSTS directly due to tanning...and funding 'uninsured Americans"..
What tanning salons and lawyers have in common are they both contribute directly to the costs of health care.
Tanning salons $1.4 billion
Lawyers contribution to health care costs $850 billion.
BUT are lawyers taxed 10% of their $270 billion a year in income as tanning salons are taxed?
Proof is 90% of physicians surveyed say they order $850 billion a year in wasted duplicate tests, referrals all out of FEAR of being SUED!
Physicians estimate the cost of defensive medicine in US at $650 to $850 billion per year
Health News Observer ? Physicians Estimate The Cost Of Defensive Medicine In Us At 650 To 850 Bill Articles
So if these experts,i.e. physicians that order duplicate tests, etc. which become CLAIMS to be paid by PAYERS add up to over $850 billion for only ONE
reason, "FEAR of being SUED"!
Physicians are under the Stark Law NOT allowed to make money by referring/ordering these tests.
So why wasn't lawyers taxed 10% and that $27 billion a year used to pay a $5,000 per year per uninsured American's health insurance?
With the proven number of less then 4 million Americans that want and need insurance that would fulfill the objective of ACA i.e. funding for the "uninsured Americans'!