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Article: Labor market effects of Hawaii's mandatory employer-provided health insurance.
- Article from:
- Industrial and Labor Relations Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
- Author:
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Although it appears that health insurance reform is on hold for the time being, a key issue in the health care debate that will almost certainly reappear in the near future is whether to have an employer or individual mandate. The Clinton Administration argued that an employer mandate for the provision of health insurance of the type described in the American Health Security Bill would have a very small adverse employment impact. Most of the cost of the mandate to employers, Administration officials claimed, can be shifted to workers in the form of lower wages. They pointed to state-level evidence from Hawaii showing that mandatory employer provision of health insurance, ...