Free Market Lessons from Contraception Fight
3 lessons: Health insurance should be uncoupled from employment Mandated benefits will become political footballs. We must fight for freedom as a principle. Continue reading
Mandated birth control coverage: It’s not about contraceptives, it’s about liberty
In a free society, we … allow individuals to pursue their individual goals according to their “different moral convictions.” We don’t force them into relationships, whether with employers or insurance companies or whomever, that offend those convictions. Continue reading
Contraception mandate: The Illiberality of ObamaCare
The non-compromise Obama floated does not reduce by one penny the amount of money he would force Catholics to spend on contraception. Worse, this mandate is just one manifestation of how the president’s health care law will grind up the freedom of every American. Continue reading
Access to birth control has nothing to do with actual insurance
In other words, lack of insurance coverage for contraception is equivalent to being forced not to use contraception. That is some strange argument, but it’s what we’ve come to expect from members of the “world’s greatest deliberative body.” So the question remains: What has this got to do with insurance? Continue reading
ObamaCare: Economic control becomes political control
“When the state has the final say on the economy, the political opposition needs the permission of the state to act, speak and write. Economic control becomes political control.” – Russ Roberts Continue reading
New HHS Regs Endanger HSAs, High-Deductible Plans, #thanksobamacare
A new Obama administration rule could drive out of the market the low-cost, high deductible plans that are supposed to be available under ObamaCare. That would likely mean a sharp jump in taxpayer subsidies. Continue reading
Feds won’t add any insurance coverage mandates in exchanges – for now
“Insurance providers will not have to offer any new health benefits beyond what the state of Colorado already mandates … in order to sell policies in health benefits exchanges, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced.” This won’t be a “race to the bottom,” contrary to critics. Continue reading
Screening for Terrorists vs. Screening for Cancer
Our government currently tells air travelers, “Submit to our screening despite the dubious effectiveness, bodily invasion, and needless emotional distress” while simultaneously telling patients, “Don’t undergo cancer screening because it might lead to further bodily invasion and emotional distress.” Continue reading
The “Essential Health Benefits Package”: disease constituencies clamor to make it huge
Paul Hsieh, MD describes how interest groups are clamoring to have government require all legal health plans include certain mandated benefits, hence driving up the costs of the most basic health plans and requiring you to buy a plan with benefits you may neither want or need. Continue reading
