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Mandatory Reading
Real world experience among politicians and mandates. Also: Conservative mission impossible. The Prius we pay. As go Ohio Republicans… Plus much more.
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SQUANDERED MANDATES
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Re: David Catron’s
No More
Mandate Madness
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Pick-and-choose health insurance is a great idea — but it will eventually be undermined by attorneys. It doesn’t take much to imagine a “suffering soul’s” lawyer telling a jury that his “heartless” insurance company “should have covered him anyway,” despite the fact that he decided not to insure whatever was afflicting him.
p>A couple of multi-million dollar awards later, it’s back to square one. br> — Arnold Ahlert br> Boca Raton, Florida /p> p> My company recently announced an upcoming move to “smoke-free” campuses throughout the United States. One of the major reasons used for this action was the “lowering of health-costs.” While I had already used the argument that mandated coverage and stock policies raise the cost more than my smoking, the numbers provided by your articles and links are very beneficial in either forcing my company to change its policy, or at least admit the real reasons. br> — Charles Campbell
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