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Will ObamaCare produce cascade of insolvent Colorado insurers?0
- July 18, 2011
ObamaCare threatens the solvency of private health plans, which will significantly reduce consumer choice and increase costs. …[In] Colorado, where one large health plan has already announced plans to leave the state, Graham’s analysis demonstrates a “cascade” of insolvency, whereby only five of the ten largest plans in 2009 will be operating in 2017.
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“Accountable Care Organizations”: The Coming Collectivization of American Health Care 0
- July 12, 2011
In the 1930s, the USSR forced independent farmers into large state-run collective farms. … these collective farms could not feed the country. … Unfortunately, the United States is about to make the same mistake in health care by collectivizing doctors and hospitals into government-supervised accountable care organizations (ACOs).
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Is the Colorado Health Benefits exchange built to fail?0
- July 6, 2011
Last week Governor Hickenlooper’s office announced the members of the Colorado Health Benefits Exchange Board. Paul Howard and Stephen T. Parente write why such exchanges are built to fail. Because of a “litany of new minimum-insurance requirements and regulations … health insurance purchased through an exchange will likely end up more expensive than it is now.”
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Hickenlooper’s veto of SB 11-213 insults low-income parents 0
- June 27, 2011
Published in the Boulder Daily Camera: Maintaining current Child Health Plan fees would not only be an injustice to taxpayers, but also an insult to eligible parents. The fees imply that parents value enjoying life’s amenities more than their own children’s health.
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The FDA, Avastin, and death panels 0
- June 24, 2011
“The FDA, stuck in its 1960s Thalidomide glory days mindset, denies Americans access to life-saving drugs. …[D]espite its intentions, [the FDA] drives up the costs of medicines & often dries up the supply chain altogether. America is currently facing a shortage of about 246 drugs – a record high.” – Milton Wolf, MD
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Accountable Care Organizations: Soviet-style command & control medicine that strangles innovation & quality 0
- June 22, 2011
Accountable Care Organizations “will become the medical equivalent of the state-run giant collective farms that failed to feed the USSR. Central planning will strangle innovation in American medicine just as it strangled the Eastern Bloc economies during the Cold War.”
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