An $800 Billion Mistake

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Author(s) Martin Feldstein
Source The Washington Post
Date January 29, 2009
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012802938.html
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"The plan to finance health insurance premiums for the unemployed would actually increase unemployment by giving employers an incentive to lay off workers rather than pay health premiums during a time of weak demand. And this supposedly two-year program would create a precedent that could be hard to reverse."


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This item argues against the position Act should be passed on the topic American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.