Democrats & AARP exploit young adults

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

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 ...

Health care bill: A Bad Deal for Young Adults

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

A new Cato briefing paper by economist Aaron Yelowitz. Here's the summary: One of the most interesting questions about the health care overhaul now moving through Congress is how it would affect young adults. That legislation would force most or all Americans to purchase health insurance (an "individual mandate") and would impose ...

Compulsory insurance exploits healthy “invincibles”

Monday, April 28th, 2008

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 ...