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Monthly Archives: June 2011
“Accountable Care Organization” Debacle Exposes Obamacare’s Fatal Conceit
Obama administration’s efforts to promote accountable care organizations (ACOs) in Medicare are failing because they are “premised on the fatal conceit that government experts can direct the market better than millions of consumers making their own decisions.” Continue reading
White House: Buy Health Insurance or Be Poor
“[T]he government’s latest position that the [health control] law doesn’t really require people to buy health insurance at all. We have the option instead of earning less money. ” Continue reading
Obamacare’s Big Brother: Accountable Care Organizations
The fundamental flaw with ACOs is the Big Brother approach of controlling costs by dictating how physicians may practice. Doctors may decide they’d rather be ‘accountable’ to their ACO paymasters rather than patients. Continue reading
Stuck with Medicaid “coverage” but no health care? Can’t sue that state
“Most of the “newly covered” [Medicaid] patients won’t be able to find doctors … willing to treat them. … Those “newly covered” people will also have to abandon some of their legal rights.”
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Posted in coverage isn't care, Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP
Tagged medicaid access, ObamaCare
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Gov. Hickenlooper wrong to veto Colorado SB11-213
Gov. John Hickenlooper was wrong to veto Senate Bill 213, which would have increased Child Health Plan Plus premiums for families earning more than twice the federal poverty level. What’s unfair is that Colorado compels taxpayers to fund a program that allows eligible parents to value satisfying bodily appetites more than their children’s healt Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, PPC
Tagged Colorado Child Health Plan Plus, crowd out, John Hickenlooper health care, SCHIP
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Paul Ryan video illustrates Medicare’s problems & path to solution
Rep. Paul Ryan narrates a good video using “sticky” visuals about how Medicare is a financial train wreck, and how converting it to a voucher program for (not-so-private) insurance plans would be an improvement. Continue reading
Health care: Maine moves toward freedom, Vermont toward single-payer authoritarianism
Maine adopts free-market reforms (though they conflict with federal health control bill), while Vermont goes single payer. Continue reading
NHS in England fails to meet “even the most basic standards of care”
“The National Health Service is today condemned over its inhumane treatment of elderly patients in an official report that finds hospitals are failing to meet “even the most basic standards of care” for the over-65s” – Telegraph Continue reading
Posted in coverage isn't care, PPC, single payer
Tagged coverage is not care, health care in England, single payer
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