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‘Risks’ loom for Colorado health exchange technology
As Colorado’s health exchange managers sprint toward an October 1 launch, a top manager warned board members on Monday that a recent decision to build a new “eligibility” IT system poses the greatest risk of delay and could undermine the quality of the online health marketplace. Continue reading
Health and Human Services Secretary Doesnt Understand What Insurance Is
Catastrophic coverage is “true insurance”. Coverage of routine, predictable services is not insurance at all; its a spectacularly inefficient prepayment plan. Continue reading
Will you lose your employer-based coverage and be herded into an insurance exchange?
Medicare actuary Richard Foster has predicted that “nearly everyone” will end up buying government-approved health coverage through exchanges. Several independent analyses have given credence to this. Continue reading
ObamaCare: Three Years of Broken Promises
A torrent of recent studies and reports has provided new evidence — as if we needed more confirmation — that nearly everything we were told about this law was untrue. Continue reading
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Colorado Health Benefits Exchange: poor access & narrow provider network?
[I]f the health plans and hospitals contract with fewer providers, they can exert more leverage on doctors to limit services and keep costs down. Continue reading
Tech troubles could hobble Colorado health exchange
Critical problems threaten the system, ranging from a lack of coordination with the state’s technology office and historic problems with state IT systems to poor oversight by exchange managers and contractors and the potential for serious conflicts of interest among those charged with creating the complex multi-million dollar exchange system. Continue reading
Mag Ban: A Range Officer’s Safety Perspective of Colorado HB13-1224
“all three of us would have been criminals because the original owner of the magazine was no longer in “continuous possession” of the magazine and two other individuals had it in their possession during training.” Continue reading
How Colorado’s Medicaid expansion harms patients
Medicaid expansion would limit access to care for the significant fraction of the currently uninsured who would otherwise be eligible for federal premium subsidies under ObamaCare. It raises costs for state taxpayers, increases costs for people who are hospitalized, and prevents state insurers from collecting millions of dollars in federal subsidy money. Continue reading
Colorado House Bill 1224: Magazine Ban Worse Than Advertised
Jon Caldara, President of the Independence Institute, demonstrates how HB 13-1224 would ban almost all magazines in Colorado. You may have heard it will only affect magazines over 15 rounds. Not so. Continue reading
Jon Caldara: One-on-One with Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper
Host Jon Caldara is joined by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper to discuss, among other issues, the numerous gun related bills making their way through the General Assembly. Continue reading