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
What to do if Supreme Court overturns ObamaCare
Economist John Cochrane suggests free-market health care reforms that Congress should enact if the Supreme Court strikes down ObamaCare 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
Kopel on Obamacare & the Supreme Court
CO Independent reports: “The Independence Institute … has filed what it is calling two “potentially game changing” briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court. The court this week is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the two-year-old law.” Continue reading
Kopel on Obamacare & the Supreme Court
CO Independent reports: “The Independence Institute … has filed what it is calling two “potentially game changing” briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court. The court this week is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the two-year-old law.” Continue reading
Tuesday, March 27: Hands Off My Healthcare Rallies in Colorado
Rallies for the “Supreme Court to uphold Americans’ individual freedom and rule that the ObamaCare individual mandate is unconstitutional.” CO Springs, Denver, Grand Junction, Loveland. Continue reading
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
End birth-control coverage battle: Allow us to buy it without a prescription
Former Reason magazine editor Virginia Postrel argues that people should be able to buy birth control as they do condoms: Without a prescription. This would diffuse the controversy on government’s mandate that health plans cover birth control. Continue reading
Colorado Consumer Health Initiative takes power from patients, hands it to politically-controlled health plans
Erik Lessing’s excellent letter to the editor in the Denver Post in response the Colorado “Consumer” Health Initiative’s pro-ObamaCare op-ed. 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
