Colorado Medicaid Expansion: Remember that health coverage is not health care
John Goodman reviews studies which suggest that there is a severe quality problem in Medicaid. More information can be found in chapter 15 of [his] Independent Institute book, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis. Continue reading
The Battle Of The Narrative: How Ordinary Americans Can Fight ObamaCare
As the problems of ObamaCare inevitably emerge, the big question will be whether they will be blamed on the residual free-market elements of our health system or on the new government controls. This will be the battle of the “narrative.” Continue reading
Texas town allows teachers to carry concealed guns
Employees also must undergo training in crisis intervention and hostage situations. And they must use bullets that minimize the risk of ricochet, similar to those carried by air marshals on planes. Continue reading
Regardless of fiscal cliff, ObamaCare will make you pay more in taxes
Cliff or no cliff, taxes will go way up next year because of Obamacare. Continue reading
David Kopel: Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown
There were 18 random mass shootings in the 1980s, 54 in the 1990s, and 87 in the 2000s. Continue reading
Colorado Medicaid Expansion: Seven reasons Colorado should say “no”
Medicaid Is Bad Coverage. The Exploding Medicaid Population. The Woodwork and Crowd-Out Effects. The Cost to State Budgets
Federal Controls. Rampant Fraud. Loss of State Sovereignty Continue reading
Why Obamacares Health Care Cost Controls Won’t Work
At Reason.com, Peter Suderman reviews “Our sad, failed history of technocratic cost controls.” Continue reading
Defeating the “social justice” argument for socialized medicine
An appeal to “social justice” is popular defense of the so-called welfare state, which should really be called the dependency state. Philosopher Matt Zwolinski discusses and refutes this notion: Continue reading
ObamaCare: 21 States Reject Insurance Exchanges Over Cost, Rules
In “ObamaCare: 21 States Reject Exchanges On Cost, Rules,” David Hogberg at Investors Business Daily writes: The exchanges are where consumers without employer-based coverage will shop for insurance under ObamaCare and receive a tax credit toward its purchase if they … Continue reading
Colorado authorities forbid insurers from increasing rates. OK, now the dark side.
Colorado government’s rate review authority has damaging results. Continue reading
If mandatory insurance is a “tax”, then ObamaCare violates Constitute’s Uniformity Clause
By defining the mandate as a tax, one that will not be uniformly applied, the Supreme Court ran afoul of the Constitution. Continue reading
Colorado Medicaid expansion: lousy health care for the poor, big bill for taxpayers
Medicaid is notorious for underpaying doctors so enrollees have poor access to care and poor medical outcomes. Subsidized commercial insurance is a better, but not ideal, alternative. Fiscally, Medicaid expansion is bad news. Continue reading
