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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Health Insurance Rate Hikes: Unreasonable if Excessive, Excessive if Unreasonable
New insurance premium regulations by the Department of Health & Human Services would prohibit “unreasonable” price increases. An increase is “unreasonable” if it’s “excessive,” while “excessive” means it’s “unreasonably high.” Imagine if speed limit laws worked this way. Continue reading
Mandatory insurance & Counterfeit ‘Responsibility’
The White House’s “individual responsibility” rhetoric masks its drive to subvert individual freedom. “Forcing people to act in a certain way inverts the very notion of responsibility …[which] arises from the fact that humans have free will, and can thus choose to act in ways that benefit — or harm — themselves. Continue reading
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Tagged mandatory insurance, personal responsibility
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“Government takeover of health care”: Lie of the year?
PolitiFact has chosen “government takeover of health care” as the 2010 Lie of the Year. But the health care bill is a dramatic increase in government control of medicine. These add up to a good case for the bill’s being a government takeover. Continue reading
No surprise in Massachusetts: Central planning still fails
The Dec. 11 Associated Press article about health care in Massachusetts illustrates why central economic planning will always fail. As Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek wrote: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” Continue reading
Charitable Donations vs. Taxes
If you don’t feel comfortable forcing your friend to help someone or donate to a charity, should you vote for a politician, your representative, the empowers government agents to do so? This video illustrates the point. Continue reading
Mandatory insurance vs. personal responsibility
Mandatory insurance is not about “personal responsibility.” It’s about forcing you to pay for others’ medical care by making you to buy more insurance than you’d like. If those who use the “responsibility” argument were honest, they’d want to repeal Medicaid & other government programs that force one person to finance the medical care of others. Continue reading
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Tagged HR 3590, mandatory insurance, personal responsibility, uninsured cost-shift
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Should Colorado ask for a Medicaid block grant?
Rhode Island was granted a waiver to receive its Medicaid funding as a block grant rather than a federal match for Medicaid spending. The result: The state saved $150 million in the first 18 months. Should Colorado do the same? Continue reading
Kopel & Natelson discuss Virginia v. Sebelius
A Virginia judge just ruled against ObamaCare’s individual mandate [HR 3590], saying that the Constitution’s Commerce Power does not justify Congress regulating economic inactivity. Professor Rob Natelson & Research Director Dave Kopel comment on the court’s ruling & what that means for AG Suther’s case. Continue reading
Prepare for the ObamaCare doctor shortage
David Catron at Health Care BS cites three surveys of doctors that each conclude that many will retire or stop practicing in response to ObamaCare (HR 3590) or other similar authoritarian “reform” measures. Continue reading
Pro-liberty reactions to Virginia health care lawsuit (Cuccinelli-v-Sebelius)
A federal judge has ruled mandatory insurance to be unconstitutional. Pro-liberty reactions including the Independence Institute’s Dave Kopel, scholars from the Cato Institute, Reason magazine journalists, bloggers from the Volokh Conspiracy, & National Review’s health care blog. Continue reading