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
Krugman Flunks Health Econ 101
It’s painful to read Paul Krugman when he writes about health care. Makes you wonder how he ever won the Nobel Prize. Continue reading
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
Study: Nearly A Third Of Doctors Won’t See New Medicaid Patients
If you’re on Medicaid and looking for a new doctor, your chances are excellent of finding one … in Wyoming. Continue reading
Colorado should let Medicaid recipients supplement Medicaid payments with their own money
If low-income families were allowed to add…their own money to the Medicaid rate … we could make high-quality, very accessible primary care available to millions of people. Continue reading
ObamaCare: Dr. Orwell Will See You Now
The Obama administration can’t fix the actual substance of [its] health plan. Hence, their strategy is to obfuscate its problems with deceptive language and hope that voters don’t catch on. Continue reading
Medicaid’s Cruel Status Quo: It’s a Medicaid Ghetto
But by ignoring the past success of welfare reform, and ignoring the serious problems with today’s Medicaid program, it’s the Times that is seeking to trap sixty million Americans in a government-run health care ghetto. Continue reading
Why Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Will Reduce Health Care Access
Medicaid notoriously underpays doctors, so Medicaid patients have trouble accessing them. When Medicaid eligibility expands, many newly eligible people drop “private” health plans to enroll. Continue reading
The Collectivist Mind: the left’s double standard for government & private health plans
Health care collectivists tolerate policies of Medicaid that they would respond to with outrage if a (nominally) private health plan had the same policy. Continue reading
Improving Medicaid with block grants & consumer-directed health care
If Medicaid were turned into a block grant program in which the federal government gave each state a set amount of money, it could improve patient care, restrain the growth in costs, reduce complexity and improve outcomes. Continue reading
Medicaid as a ghetto: poor access to medical care
“While specialists turned away 11 percent of privately insured children, 66 percent of children with Medicaid were unable to get an appointment. For those who did, the waiting time was 22 days longer than for other patients.”
Stuck with Medicaid “coverage” but no health care? Can’t sue that state
“Most of the “newly covered” [Medicaid] patients won’t be able to find doctors … willing to treat them. … Those “newly covered” people will also have to abandon some of their legal rights.”
