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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Health Insurance Exchanges: A Race To the Bottom
The problem is that the actual insurance that health plans offer may be fairly lousy — perhaps just a little better than the typical managed care plan offered under Medicaid. That’s because of the way these insurance products are going to be regulated, and the way they will be priced under the federal scheme. Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged Colorado Health Benefits Exchange, health insurance exchanges, HR 3590, ObamaCare
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U.S. Credit Rating: Don’t Shoot the Downgrade Messenger
Attacking S&P for the U.S. credit downgrade is like criticizing your doctor for diagnosing your cancer. Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, Policy - National, PPC
Tagged government spending, Medicaid, Medicare
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Government Price Controls Produce Cancer Drug Shortage – Who Would Have Guessed?
The federal government has created a cancer drug shortage. How? Because of what are essentially government prices controls on generic cancer drugs. Continue reading
Caldara speaks at Colorado Health Symposium’s debate on repealing/replacing health control bill
Jon Caldara points out that what we call health “insurance” is not insurance at all by comparing it to homeowner’s insurance, car insurance, and life insurance. Continue reading
Did health care bill suppress job growth & promote unemployment?
Before the health overhaul law passed, the number of new jobs was soaring. After the bill passed, job growth stagnated. Continue reading
Will ObamaCare kill employer-based insurance & lead to portable coverage?
The National Federation of Independent Business found that many employers plan to stop offering insurance, but are interested in “giving employees a “tax-excluded contribution” they could use to purchase health insurance in an ‘open market.’” Continue reading
Obamacare threatens solvency of Colorado health plans
The notion that politicians can control health costs is a conceit of the ruling class. Health costs will only decline when patients, not politicians, directly control more of our health spending. This cannot happen until President Obama’s health law is repealed. In the meantime, CO should reject politicized control of insurance premiums. Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado Division of Insurance, HR 3590, insurance price controls, ObamaCare
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Debt ceiling: Budget Deal Doesn’t Cut Spending
“Rs & Ds have come together on a ‘historic’ budget deal that … [the] Washington Post’s lead story calls the cuts ‘sharp’ and ‘severe.’ However, the budget deal doesn’t cut federal spending at all. The ‘cuts’ in the deal are only cuts from the CBO ‘baseline,’ which is a Washington construct of ever-rising spending.” – Chris Edwards, Cato Continue reading
Is There a Moral Case for ObamaCare?
Can ObamaCare be moral when it arbitrarily subsidizes some ways of buying insurance more than others, forces less wealthy people to subsidize insurance for more wealthy people, and “Takes from people who use tanning salons and people who need crutches and wheelchairs and pacemakers and gives to … well …. who knows?” Continue reading