Warning: Medicaid is hazardous to your health0

• August 27, 2007

Warning: Medicaid is hazardous to your health by Brian T. Schwartz, Ph.D. Colorado’s 208 Commission has released detailed evaluations of its four favored health care reform proposals. The Commission’s goals include improving access, encouraging personal responsibility, and supporting a “financially viable, sustainable and fair” system. Yet these proposals preserve or expand Medicaid, which fails to meet these goals. This is documented in my free-market proposal, FAIR, and “Medicaid’s Unseen Costs,” a Cato Institute policy analysis.

Government-run auto repair? Absolutley! Modeled after health-care debacle, some would clean up0

• August 8, 2007

“Government-run health care, that’s the model for how to monopolize the auto repair industry.”

The men in fedoras looked doubtful.

“Continue,” said the driver through cigar smoke. I had no choice, but, now safely in hiding, I divulge this diabolical plan.

Exposing TABOR Data Games: A Second Reply to CBPP0

• July 14, 2007

The case against the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) is built on a shaky foundation of misleading data. The latest example of weak arguments comes from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). October 2006 report is a splendid guide to the art of using an ounce of truth to sell a pound of nonsense.

Health-insurance mandates inflate premium costs0

• April 21, 2007

In a free society, people have the right to voluntarily contract for services, including medical care and insurance. But medicine is subject to a host of government controls.

What’s right with Colorado health care0

• April 8, 2007

What’s right with Colorado health care by Ari Armstrong We’ve heard plenty about what’s wrong with health care. Perhaps we’ve heard too much about what’s supposedly wrong from those who hope to turn sky-is-falling hysterics into political advantage.

Message to Congress and General Assembly: Government meddling undermines individual health insurance0

• April 2, 2007

Doesn’t it strike you as odd that we purchase life insurance, car insurance, and home insurance as individuals or families, but many of us buy health insurance through our employers? Employer-paid health insurance is neither portable nor cost effective for the insured, and it’s a constant headache for business owners.