Austin Frakt, writing in The Incidental Economist, has a good post on studies that have provided some insight into “job lock” caused by our health care policies. This is the latest in a series of posts along these lines and this one deals specifically with “entrepreneurship lock.” In other words, do people forego starting and running their own businesses because they need healthcare through another employer.
The preponderance of evidence from the literature is that “entrepreneurship lock” exists, though there are varying estimates of its extent.
I’ve always thought health care and employers go together like fish and bicycles. I would have preferred that Obamacare go further in decoupling the two things.
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