Archive for the ‘Colorado health care’ Category

The “choice” to prohibit other people’s choices

Monday, April 19th, 2010

March a number of people and organizations* filed a Motion for Rehearing [pdf] in regards to the Colorado Right Health Care Choice Initiative.  The Motion contains a number of arguments that claiming that the Title Board lacks jurisdiction over the measure's contents, which I suppose would mean the its contents ...

Wednesday, April 28: Debate on ObamaCare lawsuit, CU-Boulder

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Correction, the original post had the wrong day. Sorry to anyone, like me, who showed up on Tuesday instead of Wednesday. See the correction notice on Jon Caldara's blog. Here's the event posting from the CU Law School. From Jon Caldara: In two weeks time, our Research Director Dave Kopel will be ...

Health information technology: benefits and problems

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

For those interested in Colorado politics ( Colorado HB 1330) and medical privacy, check out this summary of a recent study by published by the National Center for Policy Analysis. Although many proponents discuss the perceived benefits of health information technology (HIT), missing from the debate is an honest ...

Colorado HB 1008 hurts both men and women

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Submitted to the Denver Business Journal last week in response to Governor Bill Ritter's signing HB 1008 into law: House Bill 1008 poses great threats: hurting women, boosting insurer's profits, or leaving men uninsured. Now law, the Bill requires health insurers to charge men and women the same premiums ...

Colorado HB 1330 threatens your medical privacy

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Watch Jon Caldara, Linda Gorman, and Amy Oliver discuss how ObamaCare and Colorado HB 1330 threaten your medical privacy. Part 1is about ObamaCare's mandatory insurance and new taxes. Part 2 discusses HB 1330, which puts your medical history into a government database: Transparency is about taxpayers being able to watch government, ...

Hear CO Attorney General John Suthers discuss ObamaCare lawsuit

Monday, April 5th, 2010

From Jon Caldara: Colorado Attorney General John Suthers joins our Research Director Dave Kopel to discuss the lawsuit he and 12 others State Attorneys General have jointly filed, that claims the health care bill recently signed by President Obama is unconstitutional because it violates the 10th Amendment. ...

Are your medical records secure?

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

From Debora C. Peek of Patient Privacy Rights in the Wall Street Journal: ... President Barack Obama said that his administration wants every American to have an electronic health record by 2014, and last year's stimulus bill allocated over $36 billion to build electronic record systems. Meanwhile, the ...

Colo. will join lawsuit to block health care bill

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

With a huge photo of Jon Caldara, The Denver Post reports: Colorado Attorney General John Suthers is joining a national lawsuit to try to block federal health care legislation—over the objections of Gov. Bill Ritter and the Democrats who control the state Legislature. Suthers said Monday he would ...

Help Defend Colorado From ObamaCare

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Statement by Independence Institute President Jon Caldara On Sunday night the US House of Representatives passed what we call "Obama-care." This is one of the darkest moments in American history. The federal government has taken a large step towards control of our healthcare, and with it control of our very ...

Colorado House Bill 1021: Mandatory maternity coverage

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Colorado Democrat politicians continue their assault on affordable insurance, this time mandating more coverages that policy holders may not want or need.  From the Denver Business Journal: Insurance providers will be required to offer contraceptive coverage in all policies and maternity care in a majority of policies under a ...