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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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Health Insurance Exchanges: A Race To the Bottom 0
- August 15, 2011
The problem is that the actual insurance that health plans offer may be fairly lousy — perhaps just a little better than the typical managed care plan offered under Medicaid. That’s because of the way these insurance products are going to be regulated, and the way they will be priced under the federal scheme.
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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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Obamacare threatens solvency of Colorado health plans 0
- August 3, 2011
The notion that politicians can control health costs is a conceit of the ruling class. Health costs will only decline when patients, not politicians, directly control more of our health spending. This cannot happen until President Obama’s health law is repealed. In the meantime, CO should reject politicized control of insurance premiums.
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Debt ceiling: Budget Deal Doesn’t Cut Spending 0
- August 2, 2011
“Rs & Ds have come together on a ‘historic’ budget deal that … [the] Washington Post’s lead story calls the cuts ‘sharp’ and ‘severe.’ However, the budget deal doesn’t cut federal spending at all. The ‘cuts’ in the deal are only cuts from the CBO ‘baseline,’ which is a Washington construct of ever-rising spending.” – Chris Edwards, Cato
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Politically-controlled health benefits exchanges crowd out private exchanges 0
- July 27, 2011
Government has no business running health benefits exchanges. They compete with private ventures. Politico reports: “To some observers, the growing interest in private health exchanges indicates that employers would be less likely to send their employees to the public exchanges to take advantage of public subsidies.”
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