High-earning workers are not ATMs

A state agency and two different legislative commissions had meetings last week in which they discussed health care issues in Washington state, legislative priorities and federal health care reforms.

“The sky is falling” was the tone whenever federal reforms were mentioned and doom was predicted, despite remaining unknowns and failing to mention the many state-level actions harming Washington's health care landscape. (

Worse than trying to pin all our health care woes on federal Medicaid reforms and the likely and rightful expiration of temporary, enhanced subsidies that distort the health ins...