Insurance agents poised to stop selling medical insurance because of medical loss ratio mandates.
Insurance agents offer many people a valuable service of finding the best price on a the individual insurance plan that best fits their needs. But ObamaCare’s medical loss ratio requirements threaten to drive agents out of business. Continue reading
Catholic university drops student health insurance, cites ObamaCare intolerance
A university responds to ObamaCare’s religious intolerance. Continue reading
ObamaCare encourages employers stop offering medical coverage
Americas Fortune 100 companies …y could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year under the new health care law by simply terminating health insurance for their workers and dumping these employees into taxpayer-funded health care exchanges. 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
Supreme Court & Health Care: Force Begets Force Under Health Mandates
At issue is whether the federal government may force people to purchase health insurance. The arguments demonstrate that the mandate is a response to the problems created by other government controls of health care and insurance. Continue reading
Supreme Court & Health Care: Force Begets Force Under Health Mandates
At issue is whether the federal government may force people to purchase health insurance. The arguments demonstrate that the mandate is a response to the problems created by other government controls of health care and insurance. Continue reading
Medicaid Block Grants and Medicaid Performance
Governments at all levels are facing severe fiscal stress, and Medicaid is the largest and fastest growing publicly-funded health program in the United States. State and federal authorities have had little success in controlling Medicaid expenditures with conventional reforms, and changing it from an entitlement program to a block grant program is now under discussion. This Issue Paper explores how transforming Medicaid into a block grant program offers the promise of improving patient care and restraining the growth in program costs.
House Rules Committee: “Violate Your Oath No Matter How You Vote!”
It’s a stunning betrayal of all those hardworking, pro-Constitution Americans who gave U.S. House Republicans their majority. Republicans controlling the House Rules Committee have added sweeping new mandates on the states to a bill repealing part of Obamacare. The result is revised H.R. 5. Just on good government grounds, those two very different items do […]
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
Mandated birth control coverage: It’s not about contraceptives, it’s about liberty
In a free society, we … allow individuals to pursue their individual goals according to their “different moral convictions.” We don’t force them into relationships, whether with employers or insurance companies or whomever, that offend those convictions. Continue reading
ObamaCare increases demand for medical care without increasing supply
John Goodman explains how ObamaCare increases demand for medical care with out increasing the supply. 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
