From the Associated Press:
People younger than 35 who are buying their own insurance on the individual market would pay $42 a month more, according to an analysis by Rand Health, a research division of the nonpartisan Rand Corp.
The analysis, conducted for The Associated Press, examined the effect ...
Excerpts from Robert Samuelson's "Health 'Reform' That Burdens Our Young" in Newsweek:
One of our long-running political stories is the economic assault on the young by the old. ...This makes no sense for the nation, but as politics it makes complete sense. The elderly and near elderly are better organized, focus ...
This post signals my desire to join the Anti-Universal Coverage Club.
The linked post offers several reasons. One simple reason follows from what an Investors Business Daily editorial pointed out:
An astounding 20% of all uninsured have [household] incomes over $75,000. These are people who can afford coverage.
Forcing such people to have insurance ...
In a previous post I've noted that one of the most authoritarian and paternalistic aspects of Colorado's Senate Bill 217 (as proposed) and the 208 Commission's recommendations is that it would make it a crime for Coloradans not to buy insurance -- as politicians define it. This is known is ...
