unintended consequences

Did health care bill suppress job growth & promote unemployment?0
- August 8, 2011
Before the health overhaul law passed, the number of new jobs was soaring. After the bill passed, job growth stagnated.
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How health “reform” punishes ambition & increased earnings 0
- May 13, 2011
More fallout from ObamaCare (HR 3590), reported by Daniel P. Kessler: Consider a wife in a family with $90,000 in income. If she were to earn an additional $3,700, her family would lose the insurance subsidy and be more than $10,000 poorer. In addition, she would also pay more in income and Social Security taxes. […]
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How to Insure Americans who have Pre-Existing Conditions 0
- February 25, 2011
Published in Pajamas Media: People with pre-existing conditions deserve better than ObamaCare’s price controls. Free market reforms can provide it. Like a hammer that sees every problem as a nail, many politicians think the solution to every problem is legislation that erodes our liberties.
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No surprise in Massachusetts: Central planning still fails 0
- December 27, 2010
The Dec. 11 Associated Press article about health care in Massachusetts illustrates why central economic planning will always fail. As Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek wrote: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
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Low-wage union workers’ kids lose health plans because of ObamaCare 0
- December 7, 2010
Partly because of ObamCare [HR 3590], “one of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
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CO insurers stop selling child-only policies – blame health control bill 0
- September 13, 2010
The Denver Business Journal reports: At least five Colorado insurers will stop selling new individual health insurance policies for children by Oct. 1 because of soon-to-be-enacted federal mandates [from HR 3590 – BTS] requiring them to cover all applicants under age 19, including those with pre-existing medical conditions. …this action by several major companies, including […]
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