Should Colorado expand Medicaid per ObamaCare? No.
One of the most tragic failings of ObamaCare is that it will make it harder for many of the most vulnerable citizens – patients with no option but Medicaid – to get care. Continue reading
Colo. Dept. of Health Care Policy & Financing Recycles Child Poverty Statistics
If the goal is more government involvement, and one implicitly assumes that poor families cannot raise children properly, what better way to foster more government involvement than to produce and harp on data showing that child poverty is increasing? Continue reading
Colo. Dept. of Health Care Policy & Financing Recycles Child Poverty Statistics
If the goal is more government involvement, and one implicitly assumes that poor families cannot raise children properly, what better way to foster more government involvement than to produce and harp on data showing that child poverty is increasing? Continue reading
Colorado Trust’s “Project Health Colorado”: Public Interest, or Advocacy?
I’m featured in this Colorado Public Radio piece about a project by the Colorado Trust, which historically pushes for more government involvement in medicine. Continue reading
Colorado Health Benefits Exchange: Computer problems, will progress even if ObamaCare overturned?
The Urban Institute says that the biggest challenge for CO’s exchange that it’s “starting with a flawed foundation, a legacy computer system – CBMS Colorado Benefits Management System – that is inflexible and difficult to modify.” Continue reading
Your health care: Don’t trust the Colorado Trust
Mandatory insurance isn’t about personal responsibility or reducing cost-shifting. It’s about using politically-controlled health plans to advance political control of your medical care. Continue reading
Colorado docs often refuse or limit new Medicare patients
“Of 100 [physicians] contacted, only 34 said they would readily accept a new patient. [One] hesitated after figuring out that Medicare had paid half of what other insurance plans did, over three years.” Continue reading
Dave Kopel on why ObamaCare Mandates Unconstitutional
Dave Kopel explains how ObamaCare is unconstitutional: 1) The “Medicaid mandate violates the principles of federalism.” 2) The “Constitution never granted Congress the power to compel people to purchase products.” Continue reading
Colorado Consumer Health Initiative takes power from patients, hands it to politically-controlled health plans
Erik Lessing’s excellent letter to the editor in the Denver Post in response the Colorado “Consumer” Health Initiative’s pro-ObamaCare op-ed. Continue reading
Colorado HB 12-1242 would compromise patients’ medical privacy
By requiring people to choose between health care and personal privacy, Colorado’s All-Payer Health Claims Database and the proposed HB 12-1242 are both unacceptable infringements of individual rights. Read more in the CO Springs Gazette. Continue reading
Senator Brophy introduces SB 12-032: Medicaid block grants, vouchers, & premiums
For some of the merits of this bill, see my previous post on SB 12-032 and about Medicaid block grants in general. Continue reading
Senator Brophy introduces SB 12-032: Medicaid block grants, vouchers, & premiums
For some of the merits of this bill, see my previous post on SB 12-032 and about Medicaid block grants in general. Continue reading
