Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Follow up to: Insurance drives your job and marriage choices.
Last week the New York Times ran a story with the headline: "Health Benefits Inspire Rush to Marry, or Divorce." Some excerpts:
In a country where insurance is out of reach for many, it is not uncommon for couples to marry, or ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
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 ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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...
To get a clear picture of how this mandate would play out, consider ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
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, ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
An article from the Rocky Mountain News last week suggests why unions support employer-sponsored insurance:
Qwest Communications and its largest union start new contract talks Tuesday, negotiations especially critical given the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver. ... The Communications Workers of America represents roughly 21,000 employees, or about 55 percent ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The Denver Post reported last week that the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 is pushing a ballot initiative (currently "Ballot Proposal 92") 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 ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
An article in Business Week describes it well:
Held Hostage By Health Care
Fear of losing coverage keeps people at jobs where they're not their most productive
With the democrats ascendant, the political climate is ripe for another push for universal medical coverage. Kelly Services Inc. Chief Executive Carl T. Camden, a proponent ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Supporters of employee-sponsored insurance (ESI), such as union bosses, should consider whether it results in consumers finding an insurance plan that fits their needs. Consider what Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute writes in his paper on how to eliminate the tax distortion that has created it:
In 2007, 51 ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
From the Denver Post :
John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will hold a town hall meeting on health care Friday in Denver, his campaign says. ...
They want government to make the decision," the Arizona senator was reported as saying, "I want the family to make the decision as to ...
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