New Issue Paper: Medicaid Block Grants and Medicaid Performance
“The case for Medicaid block grants is predicated on a … simple proposition: when people spend what they think
of as their own money on their own health care, they spend less and get more than if they spend other people’s money.” Continue reading
It’s Not Just the Mandate: ObamaCare’s Other Infringements
Paul Hsieh, MD reviews how ObamaCare violates our liberties in ways other than forcing us to buy politically-controlled health plans. Continue reading
U.S. health care warning signs
Doctors struggling to make ends meet; ObamaCare at 2 years old: bad news;Commercial insurers have trouble staying in business;Drug companies are less ambitious; Super-high health plan premiums. Continue reading
Memo to Justice Kagan: Taxes Are Coercive
Apparently Justice Elena Kagan is oblivious to the obvious fact that taxes are coercive, in that they forcibly take wealth away from the owners of that wealth and give it to others. Continue reading
Your health care: Don’t trust the Colorado Trust
Mandatory insurance isn’t about personal responsibility or reducing cost-shifting. It’s about using politically-controlled health plans to advance political control of your medical care. Continue reading
Supreme Court & Health Care: Force Begets Force Under Health Mandates
At issue is whether the federal government may force people to purchase health insurance. The arguments demonstrate that the mandate is a response to the problems created by other government controls of health care and insurance. Continue reading
Supreme Court & Health Care: Force Begets Force Under Health Mandates
At issue is whether the federal government may force people to purchase health insurance. The arguments demonstrate that the mandate is a response to the problems created by other government controls of health care and insurance. Continue reading
3 Reasons to End Obamacare Before it Begins
1. It Represents the End of Limited Government. 2. Its Price Tag is Already Ballooning. 3. Obamacare Won’t Make Us Healthier. Continue reading
Kopel on Obamacare & the Supreme Court
CO Independent reports: “The Independence Institute … has filed what it is calling two “potentially game changing” briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court. The court this week is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the two-year-old law.” Continue reading
Kopel on Obamacare & the Supreme Court
CO Independent reports: “The Independence Institute … has filed what it is calling two “potentially game changing” briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court. The court this week is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the two-year-old law.” Continue reading
Tuesday, March 27: Hands Off My Healthcare Rallies in Colorado
Rallies for the “Supreme Court to uphold Americans’ individual freedom and rule that the ObamaCare individual mandate is unconstitutional.” CO Springs, Denver, Grand Junction, Loveland. Continue reading
Medicaid Block Grants and Medicaid Performance
Governments at all levels are facing severe fiscal stress, and Medicaid is the largest and fastest growing publicly-funded health program in the United States. State and federal authorities have had little success in controlling Medicaid expenditures with conventional reforms, and changing it from an entitlement program to a block grant program is now under discussion. This Issue Paper explores how transforming Medicaid into a block grant program offers the promise of improving patient care and restraining the growth in program costs.
