Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP

If Social Security were run like Medicare 0
- August 23, 2011
Those who oppose changing Medicare into a voucher program for “private” insurance should support running Social Security like today’s Medicare: authorities would assign housing to seniors and “pick up government-approved groceries for little or no money.”
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Colorado short on primary care docs, “reform” will make ER over-crowding worse 0
- August 16, 2011
Colorado’s overcrowded ERs to get worse with Obamacare because of lack of primary care doctors. In the Wall Street Journal, John Goodman explains how Medicare’s price controls contribute to this problem, and what to do about it.
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U.S. Credit Rating: Don’t Shoot the Downgrade Messenger 0
- August 12, 2011
Attacking S&P for the U.S. credit downgrade is like criticizing your doctor for diagnosing your cancer.
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Entitlement Bandits Rob Medicaid/Medicare 0
- July 25, 2011
Giving Medicare enrollees vouchers for private insurance and block-granting Medicaid (as passed by the House of Representatives but defeated in the Senate) would reduce the crushing levels of fraud in Medicare and Medicaid.
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Medicaid as a ghetto: poor access to medical care 0
- July 11, 2011
“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.”
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video: the case for federal Medicaid block grants 0
- July 7, 2011
The Medicaid program imposes high costs while generating poor results. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains how block grants, such as the one proposed by Congressman Paul Ryan, will save money and improve healthcare by giving states the freedom to innovate and compete.
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