unintended consequences

Is ObamaCare’s medical-loss ratio mandate increase health insurance premiums 0
- January 9, 2013
“[T]here are few signs that health care will become more affordable as a result of the law. Indeed, it increasingly looks as if the opposite could be true — that ObamaCare may be causing higher premiums rather than preventing them.” Continue reading →
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Colorado HB 12-1242 would compromise patients’ medical privacy 0
- February 27, 2012
By requiring people to choose between health care and personal privacy, Colorado’s All-Payer Health Claims Database and the proposed HB 12-1242 are both unacceptable infringements of individual rights. Read more in the CO Springs Gazette. Continue reading →
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Employer mandate for “affordable coverage” creates confusing incentives for employers, employees 0
- November 10, 2011
If [an employer] does offer health insurance, the worker with dependents will prefer that the coverage is unaffordable. That’s not a typo — if the coverage is unaffordable, then the employee will be able to buy health insurance for his family on the exchange. Continue reading →
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Create jobs by repealing ObamaCare 0
- August 24, 2011
Repeal of ObamaCare would probably do wonders to spur hiring, especially for permanent positions. Compensation for such jobs usually includes a benefits package with health care insurance, as well as a money wage or salary.
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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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Government Price Controls Produce Cancer Drug Shortage – Who Would Have Guessed?0
- August 10, 2011
The federal government has created a cancer drug shortage. How? Because of what are essentially government prices controls on generic cancer drugs.
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