The Federal Governments War On Medical Innovation – Forbes
When you need advanced medical care in 2022, don’t let the government’s war on medical innovation restrict your doctor to today’s 2012 technology. Continue reading
Is mandatory insurance enforceable? If so, penalty too small, insurance death spiral possible
The IRS may not be able to enforce mandatory insurance. If it can, penalty is too weak, which can destroy non-group insurance markets. Continue reading
Politico on next threat to ObamaCare: illegal subsidies to federal exchanges
If a state does not set up a health insurance exchange, no subsidies can apply to federal exchange operating in that state, argue J. Adler & M. Cannon. Continue reading
CBO: Obamacare Will Spend More, Tax More, and Reduce the Deficit Less Than We Previously Thought – Forbes
bamacare will spend more money, raise more tax revenue, and reduce the deficit less than the agency thought in 2010. And things could get worse Continue reading
Colo. Dept. of Health Care Policy & Financing Recycles Child Poverty Statistics
If the goal is more government involvement, and one implicitly assumes that poor families cannot raise children properly, what better way to foster more government involvement than to produce and harp on data showing that child poverty is increasing? Continue reading
Colo. Dept. of Health Care Policy & Financing Recycles Child Poverty Statistics
If the goal is more government involvement, and one implicitly assumes that poor families cannot raise children properly, what better way to foster more government involvement than to produce and harp on data showing that child poverty is increasing? Continue reading
NY Times: “Too Few Doctors in Many U.S. Communities.” Blame policies favoring 3rd-party payment
R. Posner: “Third-party payment … systematically favors specialists over primary-care physicians, because specialists tend to provide discrete procedures, which are easier for the insurers, whether they are private insurance companies or government, to cost.” Continue reading
Federal judge bars enforcement of contraception mandate on Colorado Company
A senior U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Colorado issued an order forbidding the government from taking action against a company called Hercules Industries for refusing to provide contraceptive coverage to its employees. Continue reading
Colorado Health Benefits Exchange: Will Federal Rules Dominate?
Wisonsin Sec. of Health Dennis Smith on feds: “It’s not that they don’t have answers because they’re withholding it from us, it’s that they don’t have answers because they don’t have answers.” Continue reading
Why Colorado has a Huge Fiscal Incentive to Opt Out of Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion – Forbes
Medicaid expansion will cause state budgets to explode. Matching funds won’t last. New ease of enrolling will bring many eligible people out of the woodwork. Very costly. Continue reading
Paul Hsieh, MD on how to survive socialized medicine
With ObamaCare confirmed by the Supreme Court, what can a person do to preserve his health under America’s increasingly socialized system of medical care? Continue reading
Insurance with HSAs gain popularity, but authorities want to ban them
It figures. Health Savings Accounts, or HSAs, have been so successful at reducing the cost of health care, the ObamaCare people are out to get them.” Continue reading
