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The domain name is a good clue that this is a highly political topic. Politics is not hacker news.
by mnemonicsloth 17y ago
The domain name is a good clue that this is a highly political topic.
Politics is not hacker news.
- lutorm 17y agoThe feasibility of providing your employees with health care seems like a relevant startup topic to me.
- jerf 17y agoYeah, but I'm not convinced we need to hear the discussion directly from the politicians, who have little motivation to have anything like a Hacker News level of debate about the topic, but rather, a politician-level debate about the topic. I'll make an exception for primary sources like direct links to the relevant bills, but otherwise, this is on the order of linking to a product whitepage on HN. This source is very unlikely to say anything unexpected or interesting.
- kgrin 17y agoFair enough; though insofar as we talk about removing the barriers to starting a business, "how will I provide for my [or my employees'] health care?" is a big one. Personally, I'd love to see a study of the impact on entrepreneurship/small business starts of MA's health reform. I'm walking anecdotal proof: I quit a "real" job to start a startup in no small part because I could buy into a reasonably priced individual pool and not worry about losing my (former) employer's group coverage. But I'd love to see some hard numbers, if anyone knows of a good study.