Sunday Links

Some reading material from the Internet today:

1. Interesting profile of Romney’s governorship of Massachusetts in the NYT:

“The Mitt Romney Who Might Have Been
By ROBERT DRAPER
Published: October 2, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/magazine/mitt-romney.html?hp

It appears to have been written prior to the debate.

2. I’m shocked that businesses would figure out how to circumvent the ACA’s mandates by self insuring.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/10/07/could-small-businesses-skirt-obamacares-mandates/

http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2012/10/will-smallest-employers-circumvent.html

3. Steve Pearlstein on job creators:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/i-am-a-job-creator-a-manifesto-for-the-entitled/2012/09/28/756f2e90-07ee-11e2-858a-5311df86ab04_story.html

and the side effects of cost reduction in non-labor intensive industries

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/steven-pearlstein-why-cheaper-computers-lead-to-higher-tuition/2012/10/05/5dced2a0-0fd6-11e2-acc1-e927767f41cd_story.html