New CBO report hides less of ObamaCare’s true costs
The latest CBO report on ObamaCare’s costs is less misleading, as covers more years that include both tax revenue & spending, rather than just revenue. The result more clearly shows how it fleeces taxpayers.
The Wisconsin Protests and the New Medical Ethics
The breaches of professional ethics displayed in Wisconsin may be an ominous foretaste of future problems Americans can expect under ObamaCare.
Colo. HB 11-1173: Licensing of naturopathic doctors limits competition, increase prices
Occupational licensing is a tried and true way for professionals to restrict competition while claiming to protect consumers. Colorado HB11-1173 is the latest example. It’s sure to put some naturopathic doctors of a job, limit entry of new doctors into the marketplace, and increase prices patients pay.
Colorado SB 11-168: The health care Authority will enforce your “cooperation”
Colorado’s health care authoritarians are back with their version of single payer medicine. No, it’s a “public option. No, it’s a “health care cooperative.” If this idea is so good, then they should start their own co-op w/o government force, & let people join & fund at will.
ObamaCare may sink like the Titanic
“The RMS Titanic remains the quintessential metaphor that symbolizes avoidable but inexorable downfall because of hubris and incompetence. In our new century, Obamacare may supplant it,” writes Milton Wolf. He explains why in “USS Obamacare takes on more water,” published in the Washington Times.
The Road To Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Pre-existing Conditions – The Objectivist – – Forbes
The government takeover of medicine & medical insurance has been an incremental process. At Forbes.com, read about the “general pattern of the expansion [where] advocates point to some group in real or alleged dire need and declare that Washington has a duty to act.”
How the FDA limits access to life-savings drugs
The FDA makes the production of life-saving medications prohibitively expensive. There are better alternatives to the FDA’s authoritarian practice of banning new drugs.
President Obama vs. Judge Vinson
A great cartoon by Steve Kelley. Obama to Judge Vinson: “I can’t believe you ruled against my health reform program. Judge Vinson replies: “I can’t believe you taught Constitutional Law.”
Colorado Senate Bill 11-019 lifts insurance restrictions on small employers
Colorado Senate Bill 19 would lift restrictions on small business that forbid them from using “Health Reimbursement Accounts” for buying medical insurance with pre-tax dollars.
Aetna leaves Colorado’s individual insurance market
Aetna has stopped selling individual health insurance policies in Colorado. The Wall Street Journal interviews an analyst who suggests the ObamaCare’s medical-loss ratio rules “likely triggered Aetna’s decision to quit Colorado.”
Do electronic medical records improve treatment quality?
Many studies fail to show evidence that electronic medical records improve quality of care. Since advocates of politically-controlled medicine are pushing this, you might think their real goal is to track what doctors do for the purpose of controlling them.
Dave Kopel & John Suthers on Judge Vinson’s ruling that strikes down ObamaCare
Senior Federal Judge Roger Vinson has ruled that “Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.” This ruling declares that the law. Read reactions by the Independence Instiute’s Dave Kopel, CO Attorney General John Suthers, and others.
