HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds - Independence Institute

Universal Health Care: the Wrong Prescription 0
- March 25, 2008
What good is having medical insurance if you cannot get medical care? Peddlers of “universal health care” – from Hillary, Obama, to 2nd Congressional democratic candidate Jared Polis – don’t get this.
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Pick Your Poison with Big Government Health Care 0
- February 16, 2008
ust as local experts were revealing their plans to “fix” what ails Colorado, a heavy-handed health care overhaul crashed on the rocks in California and Democrat presidential candidates clashed over the appropriate size of government’s health care hammer.
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Health care "reform" in Colorado: Go home and die; it's cheaper.0
- December 3, 2007
On September 8, 2006, the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) told patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer to go home and die. Some Colorado health reformers want to be able to say the same thing. They want a Scottish Medicines Consortium for Colorado, yet another group of “stakeholders” empowered to give “patient-centered” advice that tells people what to while denying health care to all in the name of controlling costs.
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Ritter's health care cure would prove more crippling to Coloradans 0
- November 21, 2007
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter does not want does not want health care reforms that “throw more money at a problem without addressing the root causes of the crisis.” Unfortunately, the state’s 208 Commission does exactly that.
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Cheap medicine proves costly in patients’ lives 0
- September 17, 2007
Because it is cheaper to let people die than to treat them, an obvious conflict of interest occurs when a single organization has the absolute power to both pay for health care and define it. Monopoly providers like the Canadian provincial health plans, the National Health Service, Medicare, and certain HMOs routinely use cheap medicine in order to save money. Their cost cutting strategies often emphasize older, less effective, pharmaceuticals, longer waits for care, dated equipment, and less training for personnel. Cheap medicine can cut costs, but it generally does so by delaying diagnosis, slowing recoveries, increasing morbidity, and hastening mortality.
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SCHIP: Why Pay When You Can Get It For Free?0
- September 9, 2007
People supporting substantial expansions in government health entitlement programs like SCHIP, Medicaid, and state run insurance pools should be interested in some new results on crowd-out, the term used to describe the fact that expansions in government health programs encourage people to stop paying their own way.
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