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6 Reflections on the Day
Pages 63-66

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... For example, during the group exercise, there was a hypothetical proposal to tax opioid manufacturers and distributers. Isham suggested that the pharmaceutical industry might not have agreed with the logic used in developing that tax.
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From page 64...
... PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVES A participant commented on the value of this and other roundtable workshops in exposing participants to new disciplines and tools, and the importance of this type of cross-sector dialogue to achieving population health goals. No one sector knows nearly enough to move population health forward, he said.
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From page 65...
... Isham agreed and suggested that what was missing from the discussion of tax policy principles is what is needed to evaluate a tax proposal from the perspective of population health improvement. Baciu shared a comment submitted via Twitter by Caroline ­ ichtenberg, F who asked, "If income is a fundamental determinant of health, why not focus more on progressive tax policy as opposed to tax policy to fund public health efforts?
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... Minnesota Tax Reform as a Case Example A participant observed that, even with the recent tax reform in M ­ innesota and the funding targeted toward community health, per capita funding of public health by the state in Minnesota is among the lowest of all the states. Johnson provided a link to Center on Budget and Policy Priorities blog post that discusses the success of the Minnesota tax reform in 2013 and noted that a link within the post provides details about the 2013 tax legislation.1 No state has a perfect tax system, he said.
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