Surprise, a tax-funded health insurance program encourages employers to stop offering their employees coverage. More people become dependent on a government program for health insurance, which then results in a constituency that supports the program. Government dependency grows again, and politicians gain more power over our lives. The Boston Globe reports:
The ...
[Post updated in response to Max's comment. Thanks!]
The San Francisco Examiner reports:
Remember when Obama and congressional Democrats made a big show of dropping the public option government insurance program that was supposedly going to give private insurers competition and drive rates down? The truth is the public ...
I submitted the following letter in response to the Post's article by Jennifer Brown that had the headline New Colorado law to help insure 67,500 more:
Government insurance programs steal customers from private insurers. By not mentioning this, the Post misleads readers about how Colorado's so-called "Health Care ...
The Wall Street Journal editorial board explains how so-called insurance exchanges of the House and Senate health care bills are government-run insurance:
Both bills [House and Senate] blow up the individual and small-business insurance markets, to be replaced with new "exchanges" in which people can buy heavily subsidized coverage and insurers ...
A Wall Street Journal editorial summarizes:
[Harry Reid] is claiming that a Medicare "buy-in" for people from ages 55 to 64 has overcome the liberal-moderate impasse over the "public option." But if anything, this gambit is an even faster road to government-run health care. ...
Mr. Reid's buy-in simply cuts out the ...
Cato's Michael Tanner summarizes why the proposed "public health plan" would drive commercial insurers out of business:
A government-run plan would have an inherent advantage in the marketplace, because it ultimately would be subsidized by taxpayers. The government plan could keep its premiums artificially low or offer extra benefits, because it ...
Talk about unhealthy competition. From Heritage:
A new study released today by the Lewin Group, one of the most well-respected health care consultancies in Washington, gives new estimates on “The Cost and Coverage Impacts of a Public Plan” like the one being considered by President Obama and the congressional leadership. The ...
The Denver Post published my letter on Thursday:
New insurance law wastes taxpayer dollars
Re: “The governor’s first two years; Two views of his energy level,” Jan. 4 Denver & The West story.
The Post reports that Gov. Bill Ritter “signed a law that … could result in as many as 50,000 more ...
From the Pacific Research Institute:
In 2005, Americans contributed $48 billion to health and social services via individual donations, as well as through foundations and corporations.
Philanthropic giving is insensitive to tax rates, constantly hovering around two percent of income for the last half century.
However, income is extremely sensitive to tax rates, ...
Will Obama's proposal for a nation-wide mandate for guaranteed issue insurance decimate insurance companies to the point that government will have to "save the day" with a single-payer monopoly that Obama really wants? Consider this from the Associated Press:
Barack Obama's campaign promise should prove irresistible to the millions of uninsured: ...
