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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Bizarro Health Care ‘Reform’: Expect Less, Pay More
Pajamas Media was kind enough to publish my article about the Democrats’ “Bizarro” health care reform. Here’s the first few paragraphs: Expect less, pay more. It’s not the slogan for some “Bizarro World” Target store in a comic book; it’s … Continue reading
Posted in PPC, regulation
Tagged competition, mandatory insurance, Massachusetts health, patient-as-customer, taxes
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Mandatory insurance: higher costs, less care, rights violations, & rationing
So explains Paul Hsieh MD in “ObamaCare: A National Version of RomneyCare” Massachusetts’ system of mandatory insurance drives up costs and violate individual rights “Coverage” is not the same as actual medical care The Massachusetts plan will end in rationing.
Democrats vs. small business
From Grace-Marie Turner: For example, the bill requires employers to pay at least 72.5 percent of insurance premiums for an individual and 65 percent for families. Data from a 2009 Kaiser Family Foundation survey suggest that at least 30 percent … Continue reading
Health care bill: Call your Congressman November 5
Surely you have an opinion on health care policy. Make your voice heard on November 5. Here’s a letter from Patients First: As millions of Americans head to the polls today, it’s worthwhile to reflect on what our representatives in … Continue reading
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Feds bail out Massachusetts, but who bails out feds?
Writes Grace-Marie Turner in the Wall Street Journal: Massachusetts is a problematic model on which to base federal health-care reform because the state relies heavily on Medicaid. Washington in 2008 agreed to provide the state with $10.6 billion over three … Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, Policy - National, PPC
Tagged mandatory insurance, Massachusetts health, Medicaid
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If government has a “public option” for cable TV
The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest made a clever and to-the-point video showing how a “public option” would play out: (Via FIRM, State House Call)
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Tagged health care video, humor, Public Health Plan, public option, rationing health care
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Free-market health care talk at Metro State, Monday 10 AM
Economist David R. Henderson will be speaking at Metro State College in Denver on Monday in a Pikes Peak Economics Club event. Title: What Health Economists Know that Obama Does Not Want You to Know Location: Auraria Campus at the … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, PPC
Tagged Colorado health care, free-market health care brief
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