Top Obama Advisers Proposed Voucherizing Medicare Way Back in…2010?
Avik Roy: “It’s time for President Obama to own up. Either the Romney-Ryan plan is sound, or Obama’s campaign is being dishonest.” Continue reading
Will Obamacare Play Games With Your Actual Life?
Under new ObamaCare rules, hospitals will have a similar incentive to “game” the system to improve their Medicare statistics, even at patient expense. Continue reading
Romney and Obama: Both Wrong on Medicare
With both campaigns peddling the idea that any cuts to Medicare, now or in the future, are automatically a bad thing, we run the risk of poisoning the well for any future reform of the system. Continue reading
Ten Myths in the Medicare Ad Wars
Instead of a “serious national discussion about the future of Medicare. What we are getting instead is something akin to school yard taunts.” Get the facts from health policy expert John C. Goodman Continue reading
Ryan Medicare drama more hype than reality
The White House and Ryan Medicare budgets don’t differ that much. What does differ is their approach. The president’s approach is inflexible. Ryan’s approach has the advantage of making the cuts less painful by allowing market-based reforms instead of suppressing provider fees. 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
Why Colorado has a Huge Fiscal Incentive to Opt Out of Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion – Forbes
Medicaid expansion will cause state budgets to explode. Matching funds won’t last. New ease of enrolling will bring many eligible people out of the woodwork. Very costly. Continue reading
Dave Kopel Responds to ObamaCare Decision
The Court’s decision against the Medicaid mandate means that Colorado has the right to choose whether or not to drastically expand state spending on Medicaid; Congress cannot coerce Coloradans to do so. Continue reading
The dubious policy assumptions behind ObamaCare’s legal defense
ObamaCare’s legal defense relies as much on policy arguments—about the nature of uncompensated medical care, the role of Medicaid, and the interaction of the law’s various provisions—as it does on constitutional reasoning. But the policy case is just as dubious as the constitutional one. 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
Obama Admistration plays politics with Medicare Advantage by delaying cuts
The problem is that 12 million Medicare beneficiaries, most of them seniors, are in MA plans, and cutting them could prove very unpopular. The last thing Obama needs right now is millions of angry seniors showing up at the polls in November. Continue reading
Replace Medicaid with “health stamps” equivalent to food stamps
If government is going to force taxpayers to finance medical care for low-income people, replacing Medicaid with the equivalent of food stamps would be a large improvement. Continue reading
