The continued glee of Basic Income supporters who think taking resources away from higher-needs individuals with disabilities never ceases to amaze me.

If you gut any form of insurance and just write everyone a flat cheque, you’ll make most people financially “better off” as much of the proceeds go to a small percentage of people, since that’s how insurance works.

Doesn’t mean eliminating insurance is a good idea.

Example: In any given year, over 95% of the population cost the healthcare system less than the average person. Why? Because a small percentage of the population are high needs.

On an Excel sheet, eliminating healthcare and writing everyone a cheque makes 95% of us better off.

So should we eliminate the health care system and just write everyone a cheque, because Excel says it makes 95% of us, in any given year, actuarially better off?

Of course not. Insurance has value!

Also, from yesterday's PBO update:

"Parliamentarians requested details regarding the distributional impact on Canadians with a disability – specifically those who are eligible for the disability tax credit."

Who are the parliamentarians (plural) who keep asking for this info?

I mean, we've got a group of Parliamentarians who keep wanting more and more info about gutting disability supports. Taxpayer dollars are being spent on this analysis.

Shouldn't Canadians know who those Parliamentarians are?