Colorado Medicaid expansion: Denver Business Journal spreads myth of unsinsured cost-shift
Medicaid, through low doctor payment rates, increases insurance premiums. This amount is much more than the amount uninsured people increase premiums when they do not pay part of all of their medical bills. Continue reading
The Battle Of The Narrative: How Ordinary Americans Can Fight ObamaCare
As the problems of ObamaCare inevitably emerge, the big question will be whether they will be blamed on the residual free-market elements of our health system or on the new government controls. This will be the battle of the “narrative.” Continue reading
Medical bankruptcy: Fact or fiction?
The overwhelming body of research shows that medical costs play little or no role in the vast majority of U.S. personal bankruptcies. Continue reading
Strategies 360′s “Protect Your Care” spreads ObamaCare’s biggest falsehood
The Denver branch of the PR firm Strategies 360 has helped spread the biggest falsehood of Obamacare supporters: the before Obamacare, insurers could legally cancel people’s policies after they get sick. Both Federal Regulations and state laws forbid this. Continue reading
Contra Colorado Health Foundation: Fee-for-service medicine not the problem
It is not fee-for-service that is the problem, but the burden third-party payers put on patients and providers alike, without adding any value whatsoever. Continue reading
Your health care: Don’t trust the Colorado Trust
Mandatory insurance isn’t about personal responsibility or reducing cost-shifting. It’s about using politically-controlled health plans to advance political control of your medical care. Continue reading
Jared Polis, you’re wrong: Obamacare is a government takeover
Colorado Congressman Jared Polis (D-Boulder) claims that ObamaCare is not “a government takeover of the health care industry.” He’s wrong. The only way he could be correct is that if he acknowledged how much government controlled the industry before ObamaCare. 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
U.S. health care: Do We Really Spend More and Get Less?
Spending computations are inaccurate. [T]here is another way to assess the cost of health care. We can count up the real resources being used. … doctors per capita, more hospital beds, etc.,… On this score, the United States looks really good. Continue reading
ObamaCare’s Preventive-Care Subsidies: Neither Free nor Cost-Effective | Cato @ Liberty
Read Michael Cannon‘s post ObamaCare’s Preventive-Care Subsidies: Neither Free nor Cost-Effective | Cato @ Liberty.
Health care & the myth of United States’ poor life expectancy
If you really want to compare medical care outcomes in different countries, just looking at life expectancy is wrong. The best way to do it is [to measure survival rates and longevity] at the point of medical intervention. Continue reading
False Alternative: Forced Charity or “Let Them Die”
In a recent GOP debate, moderator Wolf Blitzer presented Ron Paul a false alternative: forced charity or letting an uninsured man die. Beth Haynes, MD. writes: “Our only options are not “Government Control or Let Them Die.” Restoring our freedom will Let Us Live.” Continue reading
