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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Authorities won’t enforce Medicare Advantage restrictions until after election
“The White House has apparently decided that it won’t enforce the unpopular parts of its health-care plan until after the 2012 election. The latest evidence is its decision not to slash Medicare Advantage, the program that Democrats hate because it lets seniors choose private insurance options” – WSJ Continue reading
How to Insure Americans who have Pre-Existing Conditions
People with pre-existing conditions deserve better than ObamaCare’s price controls. Free market reforms can provide it. Like a hammer that sees every problem as a nail, many politicians think the solution to every problem is legislation that erodes our liberties. Continue reading
The totalitarian nature of mandatory insurance & ObamaCare
The latest district court ruling by Judge Gladys Kessler reveals the totalitarian nature of mandatory insurance. If the Commerce Clause empowers the Federal Government can prohibit your choice not to act in a certain way, it can do anything. Continue reading
Posted in mandatory insurance, PPC
Tagged Constitution & health care, mandatory insurance
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New CBO report hides less of ObamaCare’s true costs
The latest CBO report on ObamaCare’s costs is less misleading, as covers more years that include both tax revenue & spending, rather than just revenue. The result more clearly shows how it fleeces taxpayers. Continue reading
The Wisconsin Protests and the New Medical Ethics
The breaches of professional ethics displayed in Wisconsin may be an ominous foretaste of future problems Americans can expect under ObamaCare. Continue reading
Colo. HB 11-1173: Licensing of naturopathic doctors limits competition, increase prices
Occupational licensing is a tried and true way for professionals to restrict competition while claiming to protect consumers. Colorado HB11-1173 is the latest example. It’s sure to put some naturopathic doctors of a job, limit entry of new doctors into the marketplace, and increase prices patients pay. Continue reading
Colorado SB 11-168: The health care Authority will enforce your “cooperation”
Colorado’s health care authoritarians are back with their version of single payer medicine. No, it’s a “public option. No, it’s a “health care cooperative.” If this idea is so good, then they should start their own co-op w/o government force, & let people join & fund at will. Continue reading
ObamaCare may sink like the Titanic
“The RMS Titanic remains the quintessential metaphor that symbolizes avoidable but inexorable downfall because of hubris and incompetence. In our new century, Obamacare may supplant it,” writes Milton Wolf. He explains why in “USS Obamacare takes on more water,” published in the Washington Times. Continue reading
The Road To Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Pre-existing Conditions – The Objectivist – - Forbes
The government takeover of medicine & medical insurance has been an incremental process. At Forbes.com, read about the “general pattern of the expansion [where] advocates point to some group in real or alleged dire need and declare that Washington has a duty to act.” Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, Policy - National, PPC
Tagged Ayn Rand, crowd out, EMTALA, Medicaid, Medicare, pre-existing conditions, SCHIP
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How the FDA limits access to life-savings drugs
The FDA makes the production of life-saving medications prohibitively expensive. There are better alternatives to the FDA’s authoritarian practice of banning new drugs. Continue reading