States can refuse federal health benefits exchanges
The Feds need cooperation from state Medicaid & insurance depts, cutting Medicaid funds is politically difficult, states impose insurance mandates on policies outside exchange. Continue reading
Why Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Will Reduce Health Care Access
Medicaid notoriously underpays doctors, so Medicaid patients have trouble accessing them. When Medicaid eligibility expands, many newly eligible people drop “private” health plans to enroll. Continue reading
Colorado docs often refuse or limit new Medicare patients
“Of 100 [physicians] contacted, only 34 said they would readily accept a new patient. [One] hesitated after figuring out that Medicare had paid half of what other insurance plans did, over three years.” Continue reading
Obamacare Medicaid mandates are unconstitutional
ObamaCare’s Medicaid mandates are, if anything, even more constitutionally dubious than the individual mandate. The Independence Institute has taken the unusual step of filing a brief urging the court to overturn them. Continue reading
End birth-control coverage battle: Allow us to buy it without a prescription
Former Reason magazine editor Virginia Postrel argues that people should be able to buy birth control as they do condoms: Without a prescription. This would diffuse the controversy on government’s mandate that health plans cover birth control. Continue reading
Dave Kopel on why ObamaCare Mandates Unconstitutional
Dave Kopel explains how ObamaCare is unconstitutional: 1) The “Medicaid mandate violates the principles of federalism.” 2) The “Constitution never granted Congress the power to compel people to purchase products.” Continue reading
Free Market Lessons from Contraception Fight
3 lessons: Health insurance should be uncoupled from employment Mandated benefits will become political footballs. We must fight for freedom as a principle. Continue reading
Mandated birth control coverage: It’s not about contraceptives, it’s about liberty
In a free society, we … allow individuals to pursue their individual goals according to their “different moral convictions.” We don’t force them into relationships, whether with employers or insurance companies or whomever, that offend those convictions. Continue reading
Can Health Care Be Bought and Sold on eBay?
A small, emerging online service called MediBid is creating an actual market that puts doctors together with patients who need care. Here’s the best thing about it. Patients who use this service can cut their health care costs in half. Continue reading
ObamaCare increases demand for medical care without increasing supply
John Goodman explains how ObamaCare increases demand for medical care with out increasing the supply. Continue reading
Colorado Consumer Health Initiative takes power from patients, hands it to politically-controlled health plans
Erik Lessing’s excellent letter to the editor in the Denver Post in response the Colorado “Consumer” Health Initiative’s pro-ObamaCare op-ed. Continue reading
Jared Polis, you’re wrong: Obamacare is a government takeover
Colorado Congressman Jared Polis (D-Boulder) claims that ObamaCare is not “a government takeover of the health care industry.” He’s wrong. The only way he could be correct is that if he acknowledged how much government controlled the industry before ObamaCare. Continue reading
