Archive for the ‘Colorado’ Category
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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Monday, May 5th, 2008
When is it OK for someone to confiscate $400 from you each year, and claim that it's the moral thing to do, because it saves you $85? Typically such scam artists would end up in prison. But in this case, the perpetrators are Colorado politicians and the backers ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
The essence of lying is the intent to deceive.
Families USA has issued a press release claiming that the Bush Administration's FY2009 budget contains "cuts in federal Medicaid payments." Yet, as Linda Gorman points out at StateHouseCall.org (and in the Rocky Mountain News ), these "cuts" are merely reductions ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Last Sunday the Pueblo Chieftain published a commentary on Senate Bill 217 and compulsory insurance by Linda Gorman , Director of the Independence Institute's Health Care Policy Center. Some highlights:
With Senate Bill 217, which has passed the Colorado Senate and awaits House action, state lawmakers who believe that higher ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Earlier this month The Rocky Mountain News published a commentary of mine about the inherent immorality of government-run charities (in this case, those for children's health insurance) and a proposal to challenge such charities to compete with voluntarily-funded charities.
The budget: An “immoral document”
A “moral document.” This is what Colorado House ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Since all things are the same, except for the differences, and different except for the similarities, it is always possible to make things look similar verbally, however different they are in the real world.
-- Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed (p. 93 , 102 )
Sowell has recently ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Follow up to: Colorado House Bill 1389: Having cake & eating it, too.
In the above post I noted how existing government controls drive up insurance premium costs and price controls are likely to exacerbate the problem by discouraging insurance companies from offering products. Over at Colorado Health Insurance Insider , ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
What would happen if some politicians in Denver required all the major grocery stores like Safeway and King Soopers to carry items that meet the quality standards of Whole Foods items, but cannot increase their prices accordingly? Shortages, perhaps? Might the stores stop doing business in Colorado?
But this is pretty ...
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