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Title: Spurring Innovation: Health Reform Will Remove a Barrier to Entrepreneurship in Iowa

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: Obtaining health insurance coverage is a tremendous challenge for self-employed Iowans. While 9.5 percent of all Iowans lacked health insurance in 2008, 1 over 12 percent of the self-employed-more than 23,000 Iowans-lacked health insurance. 2 Many workers who might otherwise have started their own businesses remain in jobs for which they are either overqualified or underpaid, simply because of the assurance of health insurance benefits. As New York Times columnist David Leonhardt noted, "[W]orkers are making career choices based on co-payments, pre-existing conditions, and other minutiae of health insurance. They are not necessarily making decisions based on what would be best for their careers and, in turn . . .

Url: http://www.iowapolicyproject.com/2010docs/100315-snapshot-health.pdf

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Authors: Cannon, Andrew

Publisher: The Iowa Policy Project

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Topics: Health, Other

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