Re:Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepren...
by _delirium on Monday February 28, 2011 @01:54AM
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> The drag on entrepreneurialism would significantly heavier if companies and individuals weren't allowed to freeload.
Measuring that difference is actually the methodology the linked study used; their main source of data was looking at the difference between people who had coverage via a spouse and those who didn't, then attempting to control for confounding variables. In effect people with coverage through a spouse serve as a "freeloaders" control group who are assumed not to suffer the health-insurance drag on entrepreneurship (or at least not to fully suffer it).
Measuring that difference is actually the methodology the linked study used; their main source of data was looking at the difference between people who had coverage via a spouse and those who didn't, then attempting to control for confounding variables. In effect people with coverage through a spouse serve as a "freeloaders" control group who are assumed not to suffer the health-insurance drag on entrepreneurship (or at least not to fully suffer it).