Feds reward Colorado Medicaid for increasing gov’t dependency
- January 4, 2011
Before the health overhaul law passed, the number of new jobs was soaring. After the bill passed, job growth stagnated.
READ MOREThe National Federation of Independent Business found that many employers plan to stop offering insurance, but are interested in “giving employees a “tax-excluded contribution” they could use to purchase health insurance in an ‘open market.'”
READ MOREThe notion that politicians can control health costs is a conceit of the ruling class. Health costs will only decline when patients, not politicians, directly control more of our health spending. This cannot happen until President Obama’s health law is repealed. In the meantime, CO should reject politicized control of insurance premiums.
READ MORE“Rs & Ds have come together on a ‘historic’ budget deal that … [the] Washington Post’s lead story calls the cuts ‘sharp’ and ‘severe.’ However, the budget deal doesn’t cut federal spending at all. The ‘cuts’ in the deal are only cuts from the CBO ‘baseline,’ which is a Washington construct of ever-rising spending.” – Chris Edwards, Cato
READ MORECan ObamaCare be moral when it arbitrarily subsidizes some ways of buying insurance more than others, forces less wealthy people to subsidize insurance for more wealthy people, and “Takes from people who use tanning salons and people who need crutches and wheelchairs and pacemakers and gives to … well …. who knows?”
READ MORE“Upon examination, Vermont’s new law is not actually the start of single-payer health care, but rather the continuation of failed state government attempts to socialize the state’s health care system.” – Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Inst.
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