Macroeconomic Effects of the "Public Option"

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If the public option in health insurance reform is revived, it and its fines on small business will have the effect of inhibiting growth in the private sector. Government nearly always wins when it competes directly with the private sector, to the detriment of the private sector and ultimately to the government that is funded by that same private sector. The same can be expected of any public option program that competes against and eventually destroys private health insurance. Eleven pages, eleven sources.