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“Business leaders” give in to union extortion
Last week’s Rocky Mountain News reports: Colorado labor and business leaders announced a joint effort to defeat three contentious anti-union measures on November’s ballot, ending weeks of intense negotiations toward forging an unprecedented alliance. In return for the business community’s … Continue reading
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“I am going out of business if Amendment 56 passes”
Forcing employers to buy medical insurance for their employees results in lower wages, lost jobs for the poor, and other undesirable outcomes. One is that companies simply close. Writes Karen Kristopeit-Parker, in a letter to the Denver Post: I have owned the Fresh … Continue reading
Does anybody like Amendment 56?
So asks a headline of an article by Bob Mook in last week’s Denver Business Journal. The proposed Amendment to the Colorado constitution would make it a crime for employers of twenty or more people not to buy them insurance. Here are … Continue reading
Free market reforms healthier than Amendment 56
Last week the Rocky Mountain News published Dr. Paul Hsieh‘s excellent critique of the proposed Amendment 56 that would require employers to buy insurance for employees. This fall, Colorado voters must decide whether to require all businesses with more than … Continue reading
Businesses join against Colorado Amendment 56
From last week’s Rocky Mountain News: Coloradans for Responsible Reform, backed by the Denver Metro Chamber and Defend Our Economy, a group made up largely of service, retail and tourism businesses, said Friday they have joined forces to fight four … Continue reading
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Colorado Amendment 56 destroys jobs for the poor, minorities, and women
Supporters of the union-sponsored Colorado Amendment 56 (“Employer Responsibility for Health Insurance”) want to make it a crime for employers of 20 or more people not to offer them health insurance. When government forces employers to buy you insurance, employers respond by paying … Continue reading
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Colorado Amendment 56: bad idea
From Monday’s Denver Post: the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 plans to submit its signatures for a pair of initiatives Wednesday. The UFCW measures would mandate companies with 20 or more employees to provide health-care coverage… [Amendment 56] … Continue reading
Colorado Amendment 56: immoral, impractical
Critique of a Colorado ballot initiative that would force employers to provide health insurance to employees. Continue reading