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Health Insurers Mum on Small Business
Posted By Sheldon Richman
“The insurance industry says it wholeheartedly embraces a health care overhaul, promising Congress and the president that it will make it much easier for individuals to buy insurance on their own. Insurers, for example, have agreed to sell policies even to people with pre-existing medical conditions, and to stop basing prices on how healthy or sick someone is…. But so far, the industry has made no such promises about another segment of the health insurance market, one responsible for many people being uninsured in the first place: the market for small employers.” (New York Times [1], Wednesday)
You call that insurance?
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“Employer Mandates: A Threat to Employees” [2] by David R. Henderson
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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/business/smallbusiness/03insure.html?ref=todayspaper
[2] “Employer Mandates: A Threat to Employees”: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/employer-mandates-a-threat-to-employees/
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