Newborns & children drive Colorado Medicaid costs. A solution? Make Medicaid parents pay more.
Six of the ten cost drivers in Colorado Medicaid revolve around labor and delivery and routine physician visits by children. Medicaid parents can afford to pay more for these services. Continue reading
Newborns & children drive Colorado Medicaid costs. A solution? Make Medicaid parents pay more.
Six of the ten cost drivers in Colorado Medicaid revolve around labor and delivery and routine physician visits by children. Medicaid parents can afford to pay more for these services. Continue reading
John C. Goodman on his new book, Priceless
Originally aired June 21, 2012. Independent Institute Research Fellow Dr. John C. Goodman, author of “Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis,” joins a panel on Stossel to speak on healthcare issues. Continue reading
High deductible health plans promote prudent spending but ObamaCare threatens them
Consumer-directed health plans — not federal government dictates — have helped bring down costs. Obamacare should be expanding them — not regulating them out of existence. Continue reading
Many Hospitals, Doctors Offer Cash Discount for Medical Bills
Unknown to most consumers, many hospitals and physicians offer steep discounts for cash-paying patients regardless of income. … if you don’t use your health insurance. Continue reading
RAND Corp: High-deductible health plans could Save $57.1 Billion per Year
RAND Corp: “Growth Of Consumer-Directed Health Plans To One-Half Of All Employer-Sponsored Insurance Could Save $57 Billion Annually” Continue reading
What is Unique about U.S. Health Care? Patients are not the paying customers
Americans control less of our own health spending than do residents of other developed countries. After ObamaCare is defeated, reversing his long-term trend must be the top priority of the real health reform that replaces it. Continue reading
How Obamacare will HSA-qualified plans more costly
At Forbes, Avik Roy explains how government bureaucrats will make high-deductible insurance plans that qualify for Health Savings Accounts more expensive, even though such plans promote prudent medical spending. Continue reading
ObamaCare’s lower-price “bronze” plans: bells & whistles w/o catastrophic coverage
‘ObamaCare[‘s ‘bronze’] policy would be a lousy deal for someone who needs catastrophic coverage but not all the mandatory bells and whistles.” Continue reading
ObamaCare’s lower-price “bronze” plans: bells & whistles w/o catastrophic coverage
‘ObamaCare[‘s ‘bronze’] policy would be a lousy deal for someone who needs catastrophic coverage but not all the mandatory bells and whistles.” Continue reading
Access to birth control has nothing to do with actual insurance
In other words, lack of insurance coverage for contraception is equivalent to being forced not to use contraception. That is some strange argument, but it’s what we’ve come to expect from members of the “world’s greatest deliberative body.” So the question remains: What has this got to do with insurance? Continue reading
New HHS Regs Endanger HSAs, High-Deductible Plans, #thanksobamacare
A new Obama administration rule could drive out of the market the low-cost, high deductible plans that are supposed to be available under ObamaCare. That would likely mean a sharp jump in taxpayer subsidies. Continue reading
