Evaluating Health Care Reform Proposals: A Primer
No one knows how much the people of the United States should spend on health care. When medical innovation improves treatments that relieve suffering and prolong life, people naturally spend more on health care. People also spend more on health care as they become wealthier. When American household incomes rise, people spend more on health […]
Using the False Claims Act to second-guess what patients need: Hungry relators, outsized DOJ recoveries, and the adverse consequences for American health care
The FCA’s aggressive use in health care cases by both the government and private parties means that nowadays, allegations go well beyond “fraud” in any traditional sense of that word, allowing the government and relators’ lawyers to retroactively second-guess physician decision-making, all the while wielding the formidable threat of treble damages and potentially crippling penalties.
We don’t need Obamacare to cover those with pre-existing conditions
Properly structured stand-alone high risk pools and medically underwritten individual health policies guaranteed coverage for more than a decade before ObamaCare.
House Bill 17-1057: Membership in an Interstate Compact for Physical Therapy Licensing
If Colorado wishes to let physical therapists from other states practice in Colorado all it has to do is recognize licenses from other states. It already does this in most cases without paying dues to support a Commission.
How flawed government health coverage incentives lead to poor quality care
by Linda Gorman Data from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) and the Colorado Hospital Association show that government health programs are not paying their way. Colorado’s Medicaid program pays 75 percent of its patients’ hospital costs. Medicare pays just 72 percent. People who pay for their own health care pay 158 […]
Amendment 69 “ColoradoCare” Resources
Amendment 69 aka ColoradoCare Resources Issue Backgrounder (PDF) and 7-point fact sheet by economist and Health Care Policy Center director Linda Gorman Blog note: Will passing Amendment 69 lead to a doctor strike? by Linda Gorman. Op-ed: Amendment 69 and ColoradoCare: If you like your doctor, you may not get to keep […]
Amendment 69: ColoradoCare mimics existing single-payer disasters
by Sally C. Pipes The good people of Colorado must be smoking something these days. That’s the only explanation for the decision by 156,000 of the state’s more than 3 million registered voters to endorse a November ballot initiative that would create a statewide single-payer health care system. Patients in single-payer systems elsewhere must withstand […]
Amendment 69: Colorado can learn from Vermont’s failed experiment with single payer health care
by John McClaughry In November Colorado voters will decide the fate of Amendment 69. It proposes to create ColoradoCare, a bureaucracy to control all health care in the state. It would initially be funded by a 10 percent tax increase on all forms of income. Coloradans trying to decide how to vote on Amendment 69 […]
Amendment 69 and ColoradoCare: It does raise income taxes by 10 percent
by Linda Gorman Judging from some comments on an earlier Complete Colorado column, at least some ColoradoCare supporters are confused about the Amendment 69 tax increases. They think that the Amendment raises payroll taxes but not income taxes. They are wrong. Section 9(3), part c, of Amendment 69 says that the Colorado Department of Revenue […]
Amendment 69: ColoradoCare will bring unnecessary suffering for patients
by Linda Gorman Amendment 69 will create ColoradoCare. Its supporters say that ColoradoCare will provide outstanding health for everyone for less. Premiums and deductibles will go away. Cede control over your health care, your liberty, and an additional 10 percent of your income to an unaccountable government monopoly health provider, in return you will get […]
Amendment 69 guarantees higher taxes, but not health care
Amendment 69 is a deadly combination of the highest taxes in the nation and an unaccountable bureaucracy that dictates the care you may receive and the price you may pay for it.
A Tax Disguised as a Fee: The Hospital Provider Fee Fund
By calling the provider charge a fee rather than a tax, the legislature was able to collect and use the revenue from the provider charge without asking permission from the voters.
