EPI Research (Page 25)

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  Labor Demand Elasticities and Clinton Health Care Reform

  July 1994

  At a White House press conference in October of 1993, Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, released a paper criticizing estimates of job losses from employer mandates to pay for health care reform.1 A specific target of their criticism was a study—The Impact of a Health insurance Mandate on Labor Costs and Employment—carried out by Drs.[…]
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  The Impact of a Health Insurance Mandate on Labor Costs and Employment

  September 1993

  Speaking to the American Hospital Association in August 1993, Hillary Rodham Clinton question why companies that do not provide health insurance to their employees should be allowed to “get what amounts to a free ride.” With these words Mrs. Clinton—who has well learned the inner workings and flaws of the nation’s health care system—indicated that she had no idea at all of how health care is[…]
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  Mandated Health Insurance, the Low Wage Employee, and the Distribution of Income

  January 1993

  Considerable political attention has been focused recently on the claim that a large and growing segment of the U.S. population, particularly the “working poor,” has inadequate access to health care. Among the many policies that have been advocated to remedy this situation, one of the most widely discussed is a proposal to require that private firms provide health insurance for all of their employees.[…]