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 ...
The Cato Institute has published Michael Tanner's detailed analysis of the presidential candidate's proposals. As one can expect from Michael Tanner, it's very well researched, accessible, and packed with useful facts. Here's part of the summary:
Senator McCain's proposal is far from perfect, but from a free-market perspective, it appears superior to Senator ...
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, ...
Who would support a self-serving political agenda at the expense of your health, wealth, and job mobility? AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and Colorado executive director Mike Cerbo.
In a recent Denver Post commentary, they perpetuate the big lie behind politician-controlled medicine: "that the free market is not working," and that consequently, ...
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 ...
