Health Policy Digest - November 17, 2009

November 17, 2009

EMPLOYER TAXES MAY SPOOK SENATE ON HEALTH CARE

An employer mandate will result in job loss and it will encourage employers not to hire employees, says John Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

WARDEN PELOSI

Under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health care reform bill, Americans who don't maintain acceptable health insurance coverage and who choose not to pay a fine/tax of up to 2.5 percent of income are subject to fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

CONGRESS WOULD COMPEL YOUNG ADULTS TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE THEY DON'T NEED

Since about one-third of young adults already reject health insurance at current prices, even more of them would avoid coverage if Congress drives those prices higher, says Aaron Yelowitz, an associate professor of economics at the University of Kentucky...

CATO INSTITUTE

THE HOUSE'S EXPENSIVE MEDICINE

The House health care reform bill is about more than covering the nation's uninsured, it's about remaking the nation's health care system, say observers...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

MAINE FINDS A HEALTH CARE FIX ELUSIVE

Many of the health care reform proposals circulating on Capitol Hill have already been tried in Maine and failed, say observers...

NEW YORK TIMES

HOW TO CONTROL RISING HEALTH CARE COSTS? INCREASE CONSUMER CHOICE

To lower the costs of health care, we should open up state insurance markets to competition, says Joseph Antos, the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute...

NEW YORK TIMES