The Health Care Policy Center’s focus is on public policy that safeguards consumers’ ability to determine their own choices about their own health care and the care of their families. HCPC fights the expansion of government directed health care that infringes upon individual choice. Director Linda Gorman has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading experts in free market health care issues.
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Mandated medical loss ratios promote bad customer service0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- September 10, 2010
Arnold Kling points out how mandating a minimum medical loss ratio promotes poor customer service. Quoting Uwe Reinhart: The recently passed Affordable Care Act requires heath insurance issuers to use at least some minimum fraction of revenue from the premiums it receives on medical services. Kling writes: A big cost component for health insurance companies […]
READ MORE9 of 10 companies anticipate their insurance will be banned0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- September 9, 2010
From MarketWatch: a new survey by Hewitt Associates, a global human resources consulting and outsourcing company, shows that almost all now believe they will not. Ninety percent of companies said they anticipate losing grandfathered status by 2014, with the majority expecting to do so in the next two years. Under the “grandfather” provision of the […]
READ MOREAmendment 63: opposition is both flawed and deceptive0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- September 8, 2010
Mandatory insurance takes what’s wrong with health insurance and makes it worse. It means higher costs, less incentive to please patients, and the prohibition of affordable insurance plans . Amendment 63 would block Colorado politicians from imposing mandatory insurance. It would also prevent the feds from pressuring the Colorado legislature to enforce Washington’s version of […]
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Opposition to Amendment 63 Both Flawed and Deceptive0
- HEALTH CARE - Publications
- September 7, 2010
by Brian Schwartz Mandatory insurance takes what’s wrong with health insurance and makes it worse. It means higher costs, affordable insurance becomes illegal, and less incentive to please patients. Amendment 63 would block Colorado politicians from imposing mandatory insurance. It would also prevent the feds from pressuring the Colorado legislature to enforce Washington’s version of
READ MOREGovernment health plans does not mean getting care, CU hospitals show0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- September 7, 2010
This Denver Post article illustrates a key point about government-run health plans: having coverage does not mean you get medical care: Two clinics at University of Colorado Hospital — considered the state’s safety net for the needy — are turning away patients on government insurance plans because they can’t afford to treat them. … Colorado […]
READ MOREThe FDA, Avastin, and your life0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- September 2, 2010
Paul Hsieh, MD of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine writes: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on the verge of taking the highly unusual step of “decertifying” the cancer drug Avastin that it had previously approved. In addition to sparking concerns that this is another step towards medical rationing, the FDA’s proposal will […]
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