Archive for the ‘Colorado health care’ Category

Wed.: Health care policy roundtable - Denver Public Library 2-5 PM

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

From Jon Caldara: The second event is a health care policy roundtable co-sponsored by the Heartland Institute. This event will be taking place at the Denver Public Library from 2 to 5pm. Click here for the agenda including speakers and topics. If you’d like ...

Colorado HB 10-1330: All-payer data base makes your medical history transparent

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Linda Gorman, director of the Independent Institute's Health Care Policy Center, summarizes this bill and how it's bad for Coloradans. Here's a list of her main points: What the Bill Does: Gives the Executive Director of Health Care Policy and Financing the power to create a database to collect and ...

Colorado House Bill 1008: Why women pay higher insurance premiums

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Linda Gorman, Director of the Independence Institute's Health Care Policy Center explains why Colorado House Bill 1008 is a bad idea: House Bill 1008 would make it illegal in Colorado for insurance companies selling accident, sickness, or health insurance to charge men and women different prices for the same ...

Buying insurance across state lines not a “race to the bottom”

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Colorado politicians forbid citizens from buying more affordable insurance available in other states.  Ed Sealover reports in the Denver Business Journal: Colorado Republicans' top health-care bill is coming before a House committee today. But don't expect you'll ever hear about it again this year. HB 1163, sponsored by Rep. Cindy Acree, R-Aurora, ...

Colorado House Bill 1008: force men to pay higher insurance premiums

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

The Denver Post reports that Colorado "House Bill 1008 would bar health insurance companies from using gender as a basis for setting different premium rates for men and women." Basically, insurers generally charge women higher premiums than men.  Supporters of the bill want to make this illegal, and hence require ...

Medicaid applicants “don’t get timely benefits”

Monday, February 8th, 2010

The Denver Post reminds us of why government should neither expand Medicaid, nor force us to donate to charities, especially ones run by government: Roughly 19 percent of new food-stamp applications were delayed statewide in October. For Medicaid, 18 percent of new applicants didn't get timely benefits that month, according to ...

Colorado House Bill 10-1154: moratoriam on mandated benefits

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Update Feb. 7: Bob Mook at the Denver Business Journal reports that this bill is dead: Small businesses in Colorado won’t get a break this year on their health insurance premiums — or from new mandates that insurance brokers say are contributing to the higher rates. On Feb. 4, the House State ...

Why we’re “crazy” about health care choice

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Originally published in the Aurora Daily Sentinel, January 29th, 2010.  This version has links to references. Why we're "crazy" about health care choice By Brian T. Schwartz and Linda Gorman Sentinel Editor Dave Perry dismisses the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative as "crazy" and says its supporters "clearly have lost" their ...

Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

On January 15 Jon Caldara submitted the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative to the legislative council "to exempt Colorado from the mandates of Obama Care." Read the full text.  Several media outlets mention this (click on link for full article): The Denver Post: Independence Institute president Jon Caldara on Friday ...

Jan 19: Free our health care rally in Denver, Colorado

Friday, January 15th, 2010

...It's good to remember that the states created the federal government and not the other way around. As Obama Care becomes closer to reality, we in Colorado have the right to say "No." This is a chance for freedom loving people from across the state to come together and send ...