Jacon Sullum explains at Reason.com:
"We allow the insurance industry to run wild in this country," President Obama declared on Monday. "We can't have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people."
Yet Obama's plan to tame health insurers would boost their business, ...
From Grace-Marie Turner:
For example, the bill requires employers to pay at least 72.5 percent of insurance premiums for an individual and 65 percent for families. Data from a 2009 Kaiser Family Foundation survey suggest that at least 30 percent of firms with fewer than 200 employees that now offer insurance ...
Walmart certainly has some admirable qualities (see these articles). But Wal-mart's self-serving position on health care is disgraceful: "Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Tuesday that it supports legislation that would require large companies to offer health insurance to their workers," reports the Denver Post. See also the USA Today. Why would ...
If you care about affordable, accessible, and quality health care in the United States, please read and sign the Do No Harm Petition from the Galen Institute:
The Hippocratic Oath Taken by All Doctors: "First, do no harm"
Politicians, policymakers and public officials should take the same oath:
DO NO HARM TO AMERICA'S ...
In a previous post I discussed how Obama's advisor Jason Furman is critical of employer-sponsored insurance, even though Obama wants to "strengthen it." In this Cato Institute podcast Michael Cannon talks about how other advisors have been critical of Obama's health care policy proposals.
For example, Larry Summers will be head ...
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 ...
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 ...
For those who support employer-sponsored insurance and forcing employers to do it, e.g., via Colorado Ballot Initiative 92 ("Employer Responsibility for Health Insurance"), consider this: employer-sponsored insurance interferes with what jobs we choose and our choice to get married. These are rather significant parts of our lives, which we should choose for reasons ...
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 ...
