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Monthly Archives: November 2010
ObamaCare and Colorado Medicaid Spending: Should Colorado Drop Out?
If the recent federal health care legislation remains as it currently exists, citizens and states might be better off exiting Medicaid and letting the federal government pay for health insurance for eligible Colorado citizens. Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged Colorado Medicaid, ObamaCare
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How Medicare vouchers could bypass health care rationing
The debate over which medical treatments Medicare would cover would vanish if instead of running a monopolistic health plan for seniors, government subsidized seniors’ purchase of the insurance plan of their choice. Continue reading
ObamaCare waivers: over 100 served
Jonathan Adler’s post at the Volokh Conspiracy on waivers to some of HR 3590′s mandates is short enough to quote in full: The NYT reports: As Obama administration officials put into place some of the new rules that go into … Continue reading
Constitution’s ‘commerce power’ doesn’t permit Obamacare
Constitutional debate about the new health care law has been about the law’s mandate that individuals buy health insurance. But the constitutional issues also include whether the federal government should be regulating health care at all. The Founders would have said “no.” Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged Constitution & health care, HR 3590, mandatory insurance
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How ObamaCare increases Colorado premiums
The Colorado Division of Insurance has published the “Effect of New Federal Requirements on Colorado Health Insurance Premiums.” Here’s a brief look behind the numbers. Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, PPC
Tagged Colorado Division of Insurance, HR 3590, pre-existing conditions, rescission
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Should states oppose ObamaCare’s insurance exchanges?
States establishing Obamacare exchanges are making a one-way, lose-lose bet. If Obamacare persists, exchanges will become bloated administrative nightmares. If Obamacare is defeated, states will have wasted time and energy that should have been directed towards that effort. Obamacare is President Obama’s problem. Don’t make it your state’s, too. Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, PPC
Tagged health insurance exchanges, HR 3590, ObamaCare, Utah health care
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What Republicans can do about ObamaCare
Republicans will have a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives next year. Michael Tanner at Cato outlines what they can, and cannot, do to stop ObamaCare (HR3590). Continue reading
Lawsuits vs. mandatory insurance could prevail
When 21 states and several private groups initiated lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health care law earlier this year, critics denounced the suits as frivolous political grandstanding. But it is increasingly clear that the plaintiffs have a serious case with a real chance of victory. Continue reading
More Proof ObamaCare Is a Sop to Industry
“ObamaCare‘s biggest cheerleaders are the insurance and drug industries. … barring repeal and despite the Obama administration’s fatuous rhetoric about standing up to the special interests, ObamaCare will shower those industries with massive subsidies.” – Michael Cannon, Cato Institute Continue reading
Does ObamaCare Reduce Health Care Spending?
“ObamaCare doesn’t reduce medical costs under even the rosiest of scenarios (that is, projections that take seriously all its creators’ assumptions). What we can be certain of is that this legislation increases the amount of money taxpayers will be forced by law to pay for health insurance to the tune of $420 billion over the next 10 years.” Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged government spending, health care cost-curve, HR 3590
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