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NIHCM Expert Voices
By Nancy Chockley PhD [President & CEO]
[NIHCM Foundation]
Sin taxes on tobacco and alcohol have a long history in the U.S., and many credit cigarette taxes as being the single most effective strategy in achieving our dramatic reductions in smoking. Similar taxes have been proposed in recent years as one weapon in our fight against rising obesity rates, and a new study has just added support for this policy by showing that higher prices for sweetened sodas are associated with lower caloric intake, lower weight, and better health.
Rationale Reviews
In his essay, Dr. Jonathan Gruber reviews the rationales for and experience with sin taxes for cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, and offers his insights on using sin taxes to combat obesity.
http://www.nihcm.org/pdf/ExpertVoices_Gruber_April2010.pdf
Related Others
Other recent “Expert Voices” essays on health reform include:
- William Vogt, RAND Corporation, “Hospital Market Consolidation” (November 2009)http://www.nihcm.org/pdf/EV-Vogt_FINAL.pdf
- Genevieve Kenney, Urban Institute, “Uninsured and Eligible for Public Coverage” (November 2009) http://nihcm.org/pdf/EV-Kenney_FINAL.pdf
- Eric Jensen, Consultant, and Lenny Mendonca, McKinsey & Company, “Why America Spends More on Healthcare” (November 2009)http://nihcm.org/pdf/EV_JensenMendonca_FINAL.pdf
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Filed under: Ethics, Health Economics, Health Insurance, Health Law & Policy, Healthcare Finance, Taxation | Tagged: alcohol tax, cigarette tax, Dr. Jonathan Gruber, Eric Jensen, Genevieve Kenney, Lenny Mendonca, Nancy Chockley, NIHCM Foundation, William Vogt |
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Tobacco,
Thank you for this important public health article.
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But it doesn’t have to be this way. Every day, more and more people are choosing a healthier way:
• Target, Wegmans and CVS Health have all decided to do the right thing and remove tobacco from their shelves.
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By David U. Himmelstein, MD; Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH; J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD
JAMA. 2000;284(6):697. doi:10.1001/jama.284.6.691.
To the Editor: In 1996, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates resolved that “all physicians, health professionals, medical schools, hospitals, public health advocates and citizens . . . divest of any tobacco holdings (including mutual funds that include tobacco holdings); and specifically calls on all life and health insurance companies and HMOs to divest of any tobacco holdings.” 1 Just before this call to divest, we noted that insurers, including some of the largest owners of health maintaince organizations (HMOs), invested heavily in tobacco. 2 Prudential owned tobacco stock worth $248 million; MetLife owned $15 million; Travelers, almost $90 million; and Cigna, $75 million. Four years later have insurers heeded the AMA’s call?
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1030905
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