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Health benefits exchanges: Insurers most concerned with adverse selection
“Nearly half of 153 health plan executives whose companies are likely to participate in an exchange cite adverse selection as a top concern.” Continue reading
Colorado Trust’s “Project Health Colorado”: Public Interest, or Advocacy?
I’m featured in this Colorado Public Radio piece about a project by the Colorado Trust, which historically pushes for more government involvement in medicine. Continue reading
ObamaCare’s lower-price “bronze” plans: bells & whistles w/o catastrophic coverage
‘ObamaCare['s 'bronze'] policy would be a lousy deal for someone who needs catastrophic coverage but not all the mandatory bells and whistles.” Continue reading
Colorado Health Benefits Exchange: Computer problems, will progress even if ObamaCare overturned?
The Urban Institute says that the biggest challenge for CO’s exchange that it’s “starting with a flawed foundation, a legacy computer system – CBMS Colorado Benefits Management System – that is inflexible and difficult to modify.” Continue reading
Contra Colorado Health Foundation: Fee-for-service medicine not the problem
It is not fee-for-service that is the problem, but the burden third-party payers put on patients and providers alike, without adding any value whatsoever. Continue reading
Replace Medicaid with “health stamps” equivalent to food stamps
If government is going to force taxpayers to finance medical care for low-income people, replacing Medicaid with the equivalent of food stamps would be a large improvement. Continue reading
Obamacare’s state-run insurance exchanges: stopping them is key
Obamacare does not and cannot mandate that states create exchanges. Moreover, state-run exchanges do not preserve local control. They will do Washington’s bidding, or else they will be commandeered or swept aside. Continue reading
Medicaid’s Cruel Status Quo: It’s a Medicaid Ghetto
But by ignoring the past success of welfare reform, and ignoring the serious problems with today’s Medicaid program, it’s the Times that is seeking to trap sixty million Americans in a government-run health care ghetto. Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP
Tagged medicaid access, Medicaid block grants, Medicaid fraud
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What to do if Supreme Court overturns ObamaCare
Economist John Cochrane suggests free-market health care reforms that Congress should enact if the Supreme Court strikes down ObamaCare Continue reading
Thomas Sowell: Obama lies about Supreme Court & health care
“There is no way that Barack Obama has never heard of it or really believes it to be “unprecedented” after two centuries of countless precedents. In short, he is simply lying.” Continue reading