Comments on: National Health Care Shouldn’t Be National: Amending ERISA to Encourage States’ Experimentation http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/ownership_society/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Congressman Rangel’s Tax Returns and the Ghost of Wilbur Mills : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/ownership_society/comment-page-1/#comment-147342 Congressman Rangel’s Tax Returns and the Ghost of Wilbur Mills : OUPblog Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:12:53 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/ownership_society/#comment-147342 [...] Filed in A-Featured , American History , Law , Media , Politics on September 10, 2008 | SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Congressman Rangel’s Tax Returns and the Ghost of Wilbur Mills", url: "http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/rangel_tax/" }); Edward A. Zelinsky is the Morris and Annie Trachman Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. He is the author of The Origins of the Ownership Society: How The Defined Contribution Paradigm Changed America. In this article, Zelinsky discusses the failure of House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel to report on his federal income tax return Rangel’s rental income from his condominium in the Dominican Republic. Zelinsky contrasts that failure with the ethical standards established by Rangel’s legendary predecessor as Ways and Means Chairman, Wilbur Mills. Check out Zelinsky’s previous articles here. [...] [...] Filed in A-Featured , American History , Law , Media , Politics on September 10, 2008 | SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Congressman Rangel’s Tax Returns and the Ghost of Wilbur Mills”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/rangel_tax/” }); Edward A. Zelinsky is the Morris and Annie Trachman Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. He is the author of The Origins of the Ownership Society: How The Defined Contribution Paradigm Changed America. In this article, Zelinsky discusses the failure of House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel to report on his federal income tax return Rangel’s rental income from his condominium in the Dominican Republic. Zelinsky contrasts that failure with the ethical standards established by Rangel’s legendary predecessor as Ways and Means Chairman, Wilbur Mills. Check out Zelinsky’s previous articles here. [...]

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]]> By: Karl Norris http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/ownership_society/comment-page-1/#comment-101813 Karl Norris Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:04:42 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/ownership_society/#comment-101813 I agree that more innovative financing arrangements would be a valuable. However, I am hard pressed to see how muti-state employers and their employees or national insurers and their customers can benefit from further variation in state regulation. For example, one of the largest health care companies just finished a project for which the state by state differences in small business group application and enrollment forms added $2 million to the cost of the project. That's after the forms had been refiled to have as much in common as the states would allow! Karl Norris I agree that more innovative financing arrangements would be a valuable. However, I am hard pressed to see how muti-state employers and their employees or national insurers and their customers can benefit from further variation in state regulation. For example, one of the largest health care companies just finished a project for which the state by state differences in small business group application and enrollment forms added $2 million to the cost of the project. That’s after the forms had been refiled to have as much in common as the states would allow!

Karl Norris

]]> By: Don Levit http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/ownership_society/comment-page-1/#comment-101474 Don Levit Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:57:18 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/ownership_society/#comment-101474 Edward: Thanks for providing your thoughts. I agree with you that states need to have the freedom to experiment with different ways to finance health care. While ERISA does provide an obstacle, I believe that states have had one area in which experimentation has been encouraged; with multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs). In 1983, Congress gave states the ability to do then, what they are asking Congress to do now. And, what were the results of the states'ability to regulate these entities since 1983? Don Levit Edward:
Thanks for providing your thoughts.
I agree with you that states need to have the freedom to experiment with different ways to finance health care.
While ERISA does provide an obstacle, I believe that states have had one area in which experimentation has been encouraged; with multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs).
In 1983, Congress gave states the ability to do then, what they are asking Congress to do now.
And, what were the results of the states’ability to regulate these entities since 1983?
Don Levit

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