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HEALTH CARE
EFF Releases Health Care Reform
Report:
Employers... Is your business experiencing an economic pinch from rising costs of employee health benefits? OR Is fear of escalating costs keeping you from offering health benefit coverage to your employees? Employees... Do you know how much your employer pays each month in lieu of wages to provide your health benefits coverage? (Answer: an average of $545 per month for family coverage; $195 for a single employee.) The Evergreen Freedom Foundation's latest health care report is a practical Primer for employers who want to explore an alternative approach to providing health benefits to employees, and for employees who want more control over their own health care decisions. It discusses major market imperfections created by current defined benefits health care model and contrasts defined contributions as a better vehicle for health care quality, choice, and cost containment. The future of health care financing in America is at a crossroads. We believe that building a sustainable framework for providing health care benefits depends on reorienting our current system toward consumer-oriented, defined contribution models. This Primer was written with the non-health care expert in mind. For a full copy of this common sense report, please contact us.
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1 Part Honesty; 2 Parts Arrogance At a March 23, 2005, House Appropriations hearing on a bill to gut the voter-approved I-601 spending limit, Rep. Jim McIntire (D) asked a supporter of I-601’s two-third supermajority requirement for the legislature to raise taxes the following question: "Can you name a time when we [legislators] have actually not just set it [supermajority requirement] aside by majority vote? I mean, this is in many respects a procedural motion that has no bearing. It’s a statutory constraint that cannot constrain any legislature that chooses as a majority to set it aside . . . have we ever used a supermajority [to raise taxes]?" - Rep. Jim McIntire (D - 46) Despite the arrogance of some state officials, Washington's constitution is clear: "All political power is inherent in the people..." |
