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
New Issue Paper: Medicaid Block Grants and Medicaid Performance
“The case for Medicaid block grants is predicated on a … simple proposition: when people spend what they think
of as their own money on their own health care, they spend less and get more than if they spend other people’s money.” 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
Obamacare Medicaid mandates are unconstitutional
ObamaCare’s Medicaid mandates are, if anything, even more constitutionally dubious than the individual mandate. The Independence Institute has taken the unusual step of filing a brief urging the court to overturn them. Continue reading
Worse Than Death Panels: Evidence-Based Medicine
The Obama administration is contemplating something that is even scarier [than death panels]: doctors would be given immunity from malpractice lawsuits, but only if they practice medicine according to government guidelines. Continue reading
Colorado SB 12-060 – Improve Medicaid fraud prosecution
SB 12-060 attempts to reduce Medicaid fraud. The Depart. of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) has little incentive to reduce fraud, as for every CO tax dollar it spends, the Feds pay the HCPF a dollar taken from a taxpayer in another state. This is why replacing this matching this policy with a block grant would be an improvement. Continue reading
Independence Institute’s amicus brief on Fed’s mandate to expand Medicaid eligibility
At the The Volokh Conspiracy, Independence Institute’s Research Director Dave Kopel writes: “On behalf of the Independence Institute, Rob Natelson and I wrote an amicus brief on the Medicaid mandate currently before the Supreme Court. (The ACA requirement that states must drastically expand Medicaid eligibility, or lose all their federal matching funds for Medicaid.)” Continue reading
Colorado Senate Bill 12-032: Medicaid block grants, vouchers, & premiums
Sen. Greg Bropy’s Colorado Senate Bill 12-032 promotes three good Medicaid reforms: replacing federal matching funds with block grants, increasing co-pays and premiums, and turning Medicaid into a voucher program for (nominally) private insurance. Continue reading
Colorado Senate Bill 12-032: Medicaid block grants, vouchers, & premiums
Sen. Greg Bropy’s Colorado Senate Bill 12-032 promotes three good Medicaid reforms: replacing federal matching funds with block grants, increasing co-pays and premiums, and turning Medicaid into a voucher program for (nominally) private insurance. Continue reading
PolitiFact’s “lie of the year” once again not a lie
PolitiFact’s past three Lies of the Year have been about health care. Not one of them was a lie. … Moreover, even if these three statements were false, the speakers believed them to be true. Therefore, they cannot be lies. Every single Lie of the Year award has gotten that basic fact wrong. Continue reading
Medicare price controls and rationing
On Stossel, Peter Suderman and Scott Gottlieb discuss how to fix Medicare. Gottlieb discusses Medicare’s price controls such that physicians get paid the same regardless of their quality, and that insurers mimic the system. He says government authorities will tighten control over doctors, control what care they can provide. Suderman discusses the point of his article, Medicare Whac-A-Mole Why health care price controls always fail. 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
