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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Colo. Senate passes SB 11-200, would create politically-controlled health insurance exchange
On April 27 the Colorado state Senate passed SB 11-200, which could establish a government-controlled health insurance exchange. Read up on why this is a bad idea. Continue reading
We Call It ‘Rationing,’ Obama Calls It ‘Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board’
Suppose Congress asked Americans: which government officials should decide what foods you would be allowed to eat and what prices you had to pay at the grocery store – Congress, or an unelected board of nutritional experts appointed by the president? Continue reading
Obamacare’s Cruel and Inhumane Inflation-Indexed Vouchers
For some prominent pundits, tax-funded vouchers for “private” insurance are OK when a Democrat proposes it, but not OK when a Republican does. Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged health insurance exchanges, health insurance vouchers, Medicare, Paul Ryan
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Concierge medicine: doctors tire of dealing with politically-controlled insurance
Concierge medicine “potentially poses a big threat to Medicare and to the new world of medical care envisioned under President Barack Obama’s health overhaul. ” Continue reading
State-run insurance exchange enables federal control of Coloradans’ insurance
“ObamaCare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, arguably unconstitutional, and a prime target for repeal. It requires the states to do much of the federal government’s dirty work. Right now, the federal government is paying states $1 million to plan health insurance exchanges designed limit the kinds of health insurance policies available to state residents.” Continue reading
SB 11-200: Colo. Insurance Exchange weakens repeal efforts, feds will control it
A state-run insurance exchange in CO cannot defend itself from burdensome federal regulations. Collaboration w/ ObamaCare “confuses the commitment to repeal.” You “do not want …Obama campaigning on Obamacare’s faux flexibility and responsiveness — as would have been demonstrated by bipartisan state legislation to implement it.” Continue reading
Colo. SB11-200: Shawn Mitchell on opposing state-run insurance exchange
Government-run exchanges “are just the next layer [of political meddling in health care]: a government solution to government problems. But it’s worse than déjà vu. Exchanges are likely to exacerbate the problem of political distortion.” Continue reading
Politically-controlled Colorado health benefits exchange bill reaches Senate
Colorado Senate Bill 11-200 advances to the state Senate without the provision that “would nullify the bill unless the state is allowed to opt out of the federal Affordable Care Act,” reports the Denver Business Journal Continue reading
Do private insurance exchanges already exist?
The Denver Post has quoted Colo. state rep Amy Stephens as saying that “Most people viewed exchanges as the most free-market part of Obamacare.” But viewing state-run exchanges as somehow free-market is also wrong because privately-run exchanges already exist. Continue reading
Washington Post & CBS Corp. get ObamaCare money
Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP)
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