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Another victim of employer-sponsored insurance
Writes John Graham at StateHouseCall: The Wall Street Journal ran a disturbing story about the increasing number of people unable to pay medical bills. Some are even having to sell homes in a bad market to raise cash. Of course, … Continue reading
Why employers won’t cut and run when individuals own health insurance
Something to think about from lawyer Peter J. Nelson: Most reforms that promote individual ownership [of health insurance] would eliminate the current tax preference for employer-paid coverage and, instead, level the field so that all Americans get the same health-care … Continue reading
Almost Everyone Would Do Better Under the McCain Health Plan
So says Robert Carroll of the Tax Foundation, published in the Wall Street Journal: The McCain health-care insurance tax credit may well be one of the most misunderstood proposals of this presidential election. Barack Obama has been ruthless in his … Continue reading
Employer-provided insurance and rising medical costs
McCain wants to end the tax code’s bias for employer-provided insurance. Obama wants to preserve it. I’ve described how the tax exemption for employer-sponsored insurance coddles insurance companies, who know you must change jobs to buy from a competitor. Boston … Continue reading
Obama and Big Business vs. a freer health insurance market
Tim Carney explains McCain’s health care plan and the politics behind it: Barack Obama attacks John McCain’s health care plan as spurring the “unraveling of the employer-based health care system.” Big employers are siding with Obama. Not surprisingly, employers want … Continue reading
Posted in insurance, tax code, HSAs, Policy - National, PPC
Tagged employer-sponsored insurance, McCain
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“Health Benefits Inspire Rush to Marry, or Divorce”
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 … Continue reading
Insurance drives your job and marriage choices
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 … Continue reading
Posted in insurance, tax code, HSAs
Tagged employer mandate, employer-sponsored insurance
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Colorado Amendment 56: bad idea
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] … Continue reading
Unions vs. your health, wealth, and job mobility
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 … Continue reading
“Union employees don’t pay health insurance premiums”
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 … Continue reading