Category: Paul Guppy
View: State’s mandates drive up health costs, reduce access to coverage
Each time lawmakers adopt a new mandate, proponents predict the change will increase the affordability and accessibility of care, but research shows the opposite has happened, Guppy argues.
View: ObamaCare taxes now, services later
“From now on, the federal government will manage the health care of all Washingtonians.”
Views: Public Option Will Lower Private Health Insurance Premiums . . . to Zero
By Paul Guppy, vice president for research at Washington Policy Center Responding to the concern that setting up a government-run public option insurance plan would inject politics into American health care, public option backers are saying, “Right. And that’s a good thing.” A recent Washington Post article reports, “Economists in this [pro-public option] camp say a [...]
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