“Thanks Obamacare” for special-interest politics & higher insurance premiums
Progress Now and the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative “thank Obamacare” for a mandate that violates the rights of insurers and employers to trade freely. It also increases insurance premiums. Continue reading
The “Essential Health Benefits Package”: disease constituencies clamor to make it huge
Paul Hsieh, MD describes how interest groups are clamoring to have government require all legal health plans include certain mandated benefits, hence driving up the costs of the most basic health plans and requiring you to buy a plan with benefits you may neither want or need. Continue reading
The Moral Case for Allowing Kidney Sales
Prof. James Stacey Taylor argues that willing rational adults should be allowed to buy and sell kidneys. Continue reading
San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center spreads flawed justifications for mandatory insurance
Gena Akers of the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center writes that requiring people to buy politician-approved health plan “works” because “free-riders are not allowed, therefore no cost-shifting.” This common justification for mandatory insurance (a.k.a., the individual mandate) is dubious at best and misleading at worst. Continue reading
Another ObamaCare Glitch: no subsidies for federal exchanges?
Congress made a legal mistake while rushing through the health law. Now it’s come back to haunt the administration. Continue reading
Patient as paying customer vs. health plan as paying customer
In response to Wal-mart’s plan to expand its medical care offerings, John Goodman summarizes what happens when your health plan buys your health care rather than emulating how car insurance and home-owners insurance does, and how walk-in clinics are growing. Continue reading
Romney’s health care “reform” too similar to ObamaCare
RomneyCare is too similar to ObamaCare for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to escape this voter anger about ObamaCare. Continue reading
No Thanks Obamacare: The rest of us won’t have “the same health care” as Congress
Progress Now and the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative falsely claim that “Congress will have same health care as the rest of us.” No so. Continue reading
North Dakota Rejects ObamaCare ‘Exchange’
“I certainly am not going to legitimize Obamacare with my vote,” said Rep. Wes Belter, R-Fargo. “We, as a state of North Dakota, need to follow some of the other states who have said no… It is the law, but the fight should not be over.” Continue reading
Dave Kopel on what the Supreme Court should do w/ Obamacare Case
Dave Kopel, Research Director of the Independence Institute, what the Supreme Court should do with the ObamaCare case. Continue reading
Obamacare-style price controls succeed in New York: ‘tens of thousands’ to lose their health care coverage
Government denials of rate increases result in insurer choosing to stop selling small group plans in New York state. Continue reading
NFIB: Health Insurance Tax tax to cost Colorado 2,500 jobs
The National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation Wednesday released its national study highlighting the private-sector job loss it says will result from the Health Insurance Tax, including 2,500 jobs Colorado by 2021 – 1,300 of them in small businesses. Continue reading
