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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Debunking claims touting Medicare’s low admin costs & ability to keep prices low
Can Medicare “use its monopsony (single-buyer) power to suppress provider fees”? Does it have lower administrative costs than commercial health plans? Is Paul Krugman right that its per-capita spending has increased more slowly than commercial health plans? No. Continue reading
Colorado’s health insurance exchange: controlled by Feds, limited choice
State-based insurance exchanges will be largely controlled by federal edicts. They will not give Americans the same insurances choices as Congress members, and they limit choice. Continue reading
Poverty, equality, and the free-market
“If left wing political theory is true, we should expect to see huge inequalities in the ownership of goods sold in the market, but fairly equal consumption in health care & education. But there’s the irony. The exact opposite of this prediction has been borne out!’ Continue reading
Canada: the soul-destroying search for a family doctor
Journalist Gloria Galloway relates her exhausting search for a family doctor in Ottawa, Canada. Colorado also has a shortage of primary care docs. Will the woes of Canadian patients come to Colorado? Continue reading
Create jobs by repealing ObamaCare
Repeal of ObamaCare would probably do wonders to spur hiring, especially for permanent positions. Compensation for such jobs usually includes a benefits package with health care insurance, as well as a money wage or salary. Continue reading
If Social Security were run like Medicare
Those who oppose changing Medicare into a voucher program for “private” insurance should support running Social Security like today’s Medicare: authorities would assign housing to seniors and “pick up government-approved groceries for little or no money.” Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged health insurance vouchers, Medicare, persuasion, Social Security
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Colorado Democrats celebrate socialized birth control & breast pumps
The Health & Human Services’ mandate on all new health plans (“insurance”) to cover breast pumps and birth control is just one example of how the 2010 health control act turns insurance companies into a vehicle for socialized medicine. Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC, regulation
Tagged Kathleen Sebelius, mandated benefits, politics of health care
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Health “reform” will increase spending
“The report by the Medicare Office of the Actuary estimated that health spending will grow by an average of 5.8 percent a year through 2020, compared to 5.7 percent without the health overhaul. ” Continue reading
Yet Another Court Voids Obamacare’s Insurance Mandates | Our American Constitution
Independence Institute constitutional scholar Rob Natelson comments on the Eleventh Circuit ruling the individual mandate in Obamacare to be unconstitutional. Continue reading
Posted in mandatory insurance, PPC
Tagged Constitution & health care, mandatory insurance, ObamaCare lawsuit
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Colorado short on primary care docs, “reform” will make ER over-crowding worse
Colorado’s overcrowded ERs to get worse with Obamacare because of lack of primary care doctors. In the Wall Street Journal, John Goodman explains how Medicare’s price controls contribute to this problem, and what to do about it. Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged doctor shortage, unintended consequences
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