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Tag: Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP

The Supreme Court’s wretched Obamacare decision

Can there any clearer demonstration of why we need a convention of the states to take back our government?

Reforming Medicaid with “Health Stamps”

The idea behind health stamps is straightforward. Like food, health is generally considered a necessity. So why not treat it the same way we treat food? Continue reading →

Instead of expanding Medicaid ghetto, Colorado should emulate Florida’s Medicaid premium support program

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper wants to drag more low-income people into Medicaid, which is notorious for fraud, delivering lousy care, poor access. Instead of expanding this failed government dependency program, Colorado should look at Florida as an example of effective Medicaid reform. 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 →

Why Obamacares Health Care Cost Controls Won’t Work

At Reason.com, Peter Suderman reviews “Our sad, failed history of technocratic cost controls.” Continue reading →

To reform Medicare, first expose its moral bankruptcy

Is Medicare compatible with the founding principle of America — that each individual has a right to live for the sake of his own happiness and not have the fruits of his productivity confiscated for others? Continue reading →

Republican governors have power to disarm the health-care law

The majority of state governors are Republicans, and they have the power to disarm the health-care law. Continue reading →

Are “entitlements” corrupting the United States?

Runaway spending on tax-funded entitlement programs is having a very real, long-lasting, negative impact on the character of our citizens Continue reading →

Obamacare’s Rationing by Another Name: The Independent Payment Advisory Board

How the Independent Payment Advisory Board gives sweeping powers to an unelected and unconstitutional board of bureaucrats. Continue reading →

Linda Gorman: Romney’s health care plan would increase choice & competition, reduce wasteful spending

“Gov. Romney’s proposed reforms recognize that 70 years of regulatory accretion has compromised the ability of the system to adjust to dramatic demographic, economic and technological change.” Continue reading →

Linda Gorman: Romney’s health care plan would increase choice & competition, reduce wasteful spending

“Gov. Romney’s proposed reforms recognize that 70 years of regulatory accretion has compromised the ability of the system to adjust to dramatic demographic, economic and technological change.” Continue reading →

Government Control of Medicine Necessitates Rationing

“When government provides “free” (or subsidized) health services, politicians and bureaucrats necessarily decide how that spending will be allocated.” Continue reading →

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