How flawed government health coverage incentives lead to poor quality care
by Linda Gorman Data from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) and the Colorado Hospital Association show that government health programs are not paying their way. Colorado’s Medicaid program pays 75 percent of its patients’ hospital costs. Medicare pays just 72 percent. People who pay for their own health care pay 158 […]
This Resolution Suggests Congress Did Agree to a Broad Constitutional Convention
On April 23, 1787, the Confederation Congress extended the post office franking privilege to all commissioners about to attend the Constitutional Convention. In other words, Congress gave to convention delegates the same privilege to send and receive free mail its own members enjoyed. Why is that important? Because it tends to show that Congress accepted […]
Colorado Medicaid expansion: Denver Business Journal spreads myth of unsinsured cost-shift
Medicaid, through low doctor payment rates, increases insurance premiums. This amount is much more than the amount uninsured people increase premiums when they do not pay part of all of their medical bills. Continue reading
Independence Institute’s Linda Gorman in Denver Post: Hickenlooper’s plan to finance Medicaid expansion is “reckless,” the “pie in the sky they always feed us.”
“Is our current Medicaid program so inefficient that they can magically save that much money on it?” Gorman said. “This is the pie in the sky they always feed us — that somehow, magically, we’re going to reorganize everything and save money.” Continue reading
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
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
Colorado authorities forbid insurers from increasing rates. OK, now the dark side.
Colorado government’s rate review authority has damaging results. 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
Government violates your medical privacy for medical price comparisons. But private sector already does this.
The alleged benefit of government taking our medical data for a website that compares prices is dubious. The private sector is already doing this.
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Newborns & children drive Colorado Medicaid costs. A solution? Make Medicaid parents pay more.
Six of the ten cost drivers in Colorado Medicaid revolve around labor and delivery and routine physician visits by children. Medicaid parents can afford to pay more for these services. Continue reading
Newborns & children drive Colorado Medicaid costs. A solution? Make Medicaid parents pay more.
Six of the ten cost drivers in Colorado Medicaid revolve around labor and delivery and routine physician visits by children. Medicaid parents can afford to pay more for these services. Continue reading
One page summary against Obamacare
A new issue paper by Linda Gorman of the Independence Institute: “The Real Cost of ObamaCare: The End Of Reforms Promising Personal, Private, Portable, Affordable Health Care” Continue reading
