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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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
From a recent report by Americas Health Insurance Plans and Milliman, Inc.:
Guarantee[d] issue requires insurers to sell an individual health insurance policy without regard to a person’s health and community rating requires that all consumers pay the same or similar premiums without regard to age or gender. According to the ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Mark Kilmer at StateHouseCall.org found this story in the New York Times, which illustrates why we should be free to buy insurance that meets regulations of any state. It's also an example of unintended consequences of political controls. He summarizes the issue quite well, so I'll reproduce it here:
The ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Addition to Tuesday's post on medical care in the Czech Republic:
An intriguing part of Sunday's New York Times article about medical care in the Czech Republic was a quote by Harvard's Marc J. Roberts, included in the excerpt below:
But many Czechs see it as a matter of principle that health ...
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