Archive for the ‘Colorado’ Category
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
From 9 News:
Legislators grilled the state's health care agency Monday over multi-million dollar mistakes and the firing of a whistle-blower, but the agency denied there was any wrongdoing.
"A smoke-and-mirrors game is being played," said Rep. Frank McNulty (R-Douglas County) on the legislative audit committee. "Something is dead wrong at the ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The Denver Post reported last week that the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 is pushing a ballot initiative (currently "Ballot Proposal 92") that would make criminals out of any Colorado company for not buying their employers insurance. Companies employing fewer than twenty people are exempt.*
The Union calls it the initiative "Employee Responsibility for Health Insurance." I'd ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Last week the Denver Post published an opinion piece about the charitible organization, Operation Walk Denver:
Operation Walk Denver is an all-volunteer team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, physical therapists and other staff who surrender a week of vacation to cross time zones and language barriers, helping those crippled by bone and ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
From the Rocky Mountain News:
The state program that delivers health care to more than 53,500 needy children and pregnant women is in administrative disarray, state auditors said Monday.
A report on the Children's Basic Health Plan found that 10 percent of patients were classified incorrectly — either as eligible when they ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Mark Kilmer at StateHouseCall.org found this story in the New York Times, which illustrates why we should be free to buy insurance that meets regulations of any state. It's also an example of unintended consequences of political controls. He summarizes the issue quite well, so I'll reproduce it here:
The ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
To:
Stephen Kapanos, Vice President Public Policy & Advocacy
Bill Lindsay and Penfield Tate, Health Care Committee, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
Elisabeth Arenales, Esq., Director, Health Care Program, Colorado Center on Law and Policy
Mental Health America of Colorado, Colorado Center on Law and Policy, and the Denver Metro Chamber of ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
In April the Denver Post published a letter by Gina Liggett against Senate Bill 217, which ties Colorado citizens to the tracks of the compulsory insurance locomotive. Gina contacted Senator Moe Keller (Senate District 20) concerning this issue. The Senator's response is below, and my comments follow.
Dear Gina,
Thank you ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Previous posts on legislation mentioned here: SB 217 (here , here, here, here), HB 1389 (here, here, here).
Linda Gorman shows how politicians support potholes and expensive insurance in her latest article at the Independence Institute's Health Care Policy Center (also at StateHouseCall.org). Some excerpts:
Colorado legislators say they want to fix ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News published my letter to the editor on Tuesday (print & on-line).
Darla Stuart (Speakout April 22) writes that since "Colorado's citizens and businesses deserve to know the real cost of the health-care insurance," politicians should force insurance companies to provide "transparency." But we really deserve to know ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
The core of Senate Bill 217 (previous posts here ) are so-called "Value Benefit Plans" that are supposed to be taxpayer-subsidized plans for low-income individuals and families. These plans are free from the dozens of mandated benefits that drive up the cost of insurance in the individual and small ...
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