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 pledge to help fight a "right-to-work" measure and two other amendments targeting ...
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 Fish Company in Denver for four years. I was able to ...
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 some excerpts, but I recommend the whole article:
Mention Amendment No. 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 20 employees to provide health insurance for their employees (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 proposed amendments this fall.
One of them is the union-backed "Employer Responsibility for ...
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 you less. This can put minorities and women out of ...
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]
To get a clear picture of how this mandate would play out, ...
The Denver Post reported last week that the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 is pushing a ballot initiative (Amendment 56) that would make criminals out of any Colorado company for not buying their employers insurance. Companies employing fewer than twenty people are exempt.*
The Union calls it the initiative "Employee Responsibility for Health Insurance." I'd ...
