Monday 18 January 2016

The High Price of Not-Even-Close-To-Universal Health Coverage

All three Democrats vying for their party’s nomination have devoted a great deal of energy lamenting the purportedly unjust stagnation of worker wages in recent years.  With equal vehemence they decry the unanimous posture of their Republican counterparts that Obamacare should be repealed and replaced as quickly as feasible. Indeed, in last night’s debate, Hillary Clinton brashly asserted that the Affordable Care Act “is one of the greatest accomplishments of President Obama, of the Democratic Party, and of our country.”

Yet a new study has found that Obamacare’s mandate to require employer plans to cover young adult dependents up to age 26 has reduced worker wages by an average of $1,200 a year .   For the full article click here 



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