Looks like our push for a second look at Medical Services Premium taxes is gaining support. The Times Colonist weighed in today with an editorial suggesting the MSP be rolled into income taxes. From the T-C:

Simply doing away with the premiums would pinch — they bring in about $2.3 billion a year. Making them part of the income-tax regime would equal or surpass those revenues, given that those in the higher income brackets would pay more.

And it would eliminate an expensive government bureaucracy that is needed to send out monthly invoices and chase those who don’t pay their premiums.

This isn’t a call for higher taxes, but a call for a fairer, simpler way to collect the health-care tax we’re already paying.

For more on our call for a review of MSP, see our submission to the BC Budget Committee.