This coming Monday, November 2, I’ll be giving a talk at the Metropolitan State College of Denver.
Title: What Health Economists Know that Obama Doesn’t Want You to Know.
Details here.
Oct 31 2009
William Sterling writes, In contrast to the analysis of Lehman skeptics such as John Taylor (2008, 2009) and John Cochrane and Luigi Zingales (2009), the evidence we present supports the view of many practitioners that the decision not to rescue Lehman represented an immediate and massive shock to the financial system...
Oct 31 2009
Twin and kinship studies find that parenting has little influence on fertility.* While there is some family resemblance - big and small families run in families - heredity accounts for all or almost all of it. This is a little counterintuitive even to me, because parents vary widely in their helpfulness.&nb...
Oct 30 2009
This coming Monday, November 2, I'll be giving a talk at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. Title: What Health Economists Know that Obama Doesn't Want You to Know. Details here.
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Doc Merlin
Oct 30 2009 at 6:49pm
“What Health Economists Know that Obama Doesn’t Want You to Know.”
1. Forcing corporations to buy health insurance for workers will increase unemployment.
2. Forcing everyone to have health insurance will increase the price of health insurance and health care.
3. Increasing the price of health insurance will further drive up unemployment (See: 1)
4. Increasing unemployment will increase the number people on the government plan and on welfare benefits and further increase the national debt.
RL
Oct 31 2009 at 3:06pm
That cost is subjective.
That you CAN pay too much to save your life.
That a true free market in healthcare would NOT look just like what we have now but with individuals paying their medical bills.
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