Colo. SB 11-168 admits that authoritarian “co-op” will kill jobs
Colorado SB 11-168 (text), which would create a tax-funded authoritarian health care cooperate that unfairly competes with insurance companies, admits that it will put people out of jobs. Section 10-16-1107 (yeah, really) reads: The [Board of Directors] shall design the Cooperative for Colorado in collaboration with parties that may be affected by the design and […]
The Road To Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Pre-existing Conditions – The Objectivist – – Forbes
The government takeover of medicine & medical insurance has been an incremental process. At Forbes.com, read about the “general pattern of the expansion [where] advocates point to some group in real or alleged dire need and declare that Washington has a duty to act.”
Health insurance takeover alert: Insurers selling different products
The Denver Business Journal reports that last year’s health control bill has “sped up the pace” of Colorado health insurers’ offering products other than medical insurance. You might think the proponents of “reform” want a government takeover of the health insurance business.
Feds reward Colorado Medicaid for increasing gov’t dependency
The federal gov’t gave the CO state gov’t $14 million in tax dollars for expanding eligibility for its state-run health plan for kids. This health plan encourages parents to drop private insurance & punishes their career advancement.
“Government takeover of health care”: Lie of the year?
PolitiFact has chosen “government takeover of health care” as the 2010 Lie of the Year. But the health care bill is a dramatic increase in government control of medicine. These add up to a good case for the bill’s being a government takeover.
Medicaid expansion – how much will it cost Colorado
Devon Herrick at the National Center for Policy Analysis writes: According to various estimates, there are 10 million to 13 million uninsured people who are already eligible for Medicaid – but not enrolled. When the individual mandate to obtain health coverage takes effect in 2014 [from HR 3590], many of the uninsured are likely to […]
Obama admits health “reform” is a means to single payer.
President Obama: … when Social Security was passed, it applied to widows and orphans, and it was a very restricted program … But the point was that we had created a framework that allowed us then to continue to make progress. That’s what we’ve done over the last 18 months. That’s what I expect we’re gonna keep […]
Mass. employers drop coverage, put employees to public dole
Surprise, a tax-funded health insurance program encourages employers to stop offering their employees coverage. More people become dependent on a government program for health insurance, which then results in a constituency that supports the program. Government dependency grows again, and politicians gain more power over our lives. The Boston Globe reports:
The relentlessly rising cost of health […]
