Privatizing Medicaid in Colorado
For many years virtually everyone has agreed that the current Medicaid system is broken, but instead of fixing it we simply throw more money at it. Medicaid costs rise far faster than the rate of inflation or the rate of health care cost increases. Yet few people believe that Medicaid adequately provides essential health care for the needy.
Government Health Care: Lower Quality, Higher Costs
Climbing from 3.5% of government revenues in 1965 to over 17% in 1990, the true cost of government health spending has panicked our political leaders. Desperate to control costs, they have mounted a media blitz designed to convince us that while a government takeover of the health care industry may cost more in taxes, the result will be better, cheaper, care. Unfortunately, the facts suggest otherwise. Government controlled medical care has been tried in Canada, Britain, and has always produced lower quality and higher costs.
