Senate Bill 11-200: The Colorado Health Benefit Exchange
Colo. SB 11-200 “proposes to create an unaccountable bureaucracy.” “The [Exchange] Board could … support legislation compelling exchange membership, payment of its fees/taxes on health insurance. … the bill allows the Exchange Board to create a monopoly insurance broker w/ unlimited taxing power. “
If low-income Coloradans spend big bucks on booze, candy, & movies, they can afford higher Medicaid copays
Are Colorado Medicaid recipients spending hundreds of dollars on candy, booze, cigarettes, and movies while the state forces taxpayers to fund their medical care? Yes, suggests the 2009 Consumer Expenditure Survey.
Can an Interstate compact (HB 11-1273) protect Colorado from ObamaCare?
“Rather than wasting scarce legislative time trying to find the least harmful way of “implementing” Obamacare, state politicians should invest in reforms that will survive long after Obamacare is relegated to history’s dustbin. Including health insurance in an interstate compact would be such a reform.”
The 12 Worst Features Of ObamaCare
The worst parts of ObamaCare include the Basic Health Plan, waivers, Accountable Care Organizations, and Medicaid Expansion.
Pick winner in the “Worst of ObamaCare” tournament at RealMarchMadness.org
[H]elp us determine which [part of ObamaCare is] most odious. Fill out the brackets below just as you would a basketball tournament bracket — choose which of the two “contestants” in each”game” you believe to be worse than its “competitor.” As you move through the brackets, you’ll eventually determine which of ObamaCare’s elements is the worst of all.
The Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Preexisting Conditions
Imagine that you live in a world with no medical insurance, you take the risk to start the first insurance company, and competition springs up. Then a customer walks in to your office and wants you to sell him insurance. He has pre-existing conditions, but expects that you sell him a policy at the same price as more healthy people. Yaron Brook and Dan Watkins explain the absurd implications of this at Forbes.com: The Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Preexisting Conditions.
Colorado Health Insurance Exchange bound to be strangled by federal controls
“[A] fire hose of [federal] subsidies explains why it is far more likely that Obamacare will corrupt Utah[‘s exchange] than Utah will manage to redeem Obamacare,” writes John Graham. The same applies to Colorado.
Why ObamaCare is wrong for America
The first in-depth examination of the impact of the new national health care law on American individuals, families, and businesses. Written by an esteemed quartet of health policy experts, Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America demystifies the convoluted plan that the Obama administration and a Democratic Congress pushed through, exploring its effect on real people.
Vote for best anti-ObamaCare / pro-liberty video by Tues, 10 PM Mountain Time
Cast your vote in the in Independent Women’s Voice ObamaCare Anniversary Video Contest. Deadline: 10 PM Mountain time, Tuesday, March 22. The Liberty on the Rocks entry is posted here.
How Medicaid Harms the Poor
“Despite the fact that the [researchers] controlled for age, gender, income, geographic region, operation, and 30 comorbid conditions, Medicaid fared poorly compared to those with private insurance, Medicare, and even the uninsured.”
Governors Implementing ObamaCare Are Undermining the Lawsuits
It would have been better if [Federal Judge] Vinson had stuck to his original order blocking implementation [of ObamaCare]. Yet he made clear that one of the reasons he did not is that many of the states asking him to strike down the law are implementing it anyway.
Flexibility in implementing health care “reform” limited to more authoritarian control
“HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has written that ObamaCare gives states “incredible freedom” to implement the law. We now know what she meant: states are free to coerce their residents even more than ObamaCare requires. What’s incredible is that she calls that freedom.” – Michael Cannon, Cato Institute
