The Denver Post reported last week that the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 is pushing a ballot initiative (Amendment 56) 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 ...
The Denver Post printed the following letter of mine last week (on-line version):
Re: "Who has your health at heart?" May 22 guest commentary.
AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo perpetuate the big lie behind politician-controlled medicine: that the free market is not working and that costs have been spiraling out ...
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 ...
Continuation of my critique of the AFL-CIO commentary here and here.
In their Denver Post commentary, AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo say that Hillary and Obama are correct to be
skeptical of the idea that the market is the right entity to put in charge.
Are they saying that the ...
Continuation of: Dude, what free market?.
In their Denver Post commentary, AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo also address benefits mandates (I assume) when they write that under McCain's health care reform plan:
existing regulations would also be eliminated. For example, state laws that mandate coverage for mammograms or hospital stays ...
The big lie behind pushing politician-controlled health care is: that the United States has a free-market in health care, and that it's to blame for costs of medical care and insurance being so hight. AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo perpetuate this in a commentary in Thursday's Denver ...
