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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Continued from Part 1.
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Topics:
pre-existing conditions
Michael Moore on why insurers deny care (Moore did not confront insurance executives about this.)
Stossel's interview with an executive (Karen Ignagni, America's Health Insurance Plans)
claims denial rate, consumer satisfaction with coverage (sites a NY Times/CBS Poll, 87%),
prevalence of insurance fraud, bad incentives of insurance
What if car insurance covered ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Who would support a self-serving political agenda at the expense of your health, wealth, and job mobility? AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and Colorado executive director Mike Cerbo.
In a recent Denver Post commentary, they perpetuate the big lie behind politician-controlled medicine: "that the free market is not working," and that consequently, ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Summary: The best defense of Health Savings Accounts is not that they promote wise spending and bring costs down. It's that they are a step toward a more ethical tax policy.
Conservatives, Republicans, and free-market advocates often tout Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) as a means of controlling costs. Yet, critics of HSAs will ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Here is first of six segments from John Stossel's 20/20 Special, Sick in America. If you don't know much about health care policy, this is a great place to start, or to recommend to others (while noting, if appropriate, that Stossel has an explicit pro-freedom point of view).
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Topics: background of health ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
An article from the Rocky Mountain News last week suggests why unions support employer-sponsored insurance:
Qwest Communications and its largest union start new contract talks Tuesday, negotiations especially critical given the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver. ... The Communications Workers of America represents roughly 21,000 employees, or about 55 percent ...
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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 (Amendment 56) 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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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The New York Times reports on how expensive CT scans for heart disease are often unneccessary, and relates one case where the patient probably did not need the scan: The doctor "said the scan would be valuable anyway because it might reassure him. And his insurance would cover the cost."
I understand the ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
The Denver Post printed the following letter of mine last week (on-line version):
Re: "Who has your health at heart?" May 22 guest commentary.
AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo perpetuate the big lie behind politician-controlled medicine: that the free market is not working and that costs have been spiraling out ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
An article in Business Week describes it well:
Held Hostage By Health Care
Fear of losing coverage keeps people at jobs where they're not their most productive
With the democrats ascendant, the political climate is ripe for another push for universal medical coverage. Kelly Services Inc. Chief Executive Carl T. Camden, a proponent ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Supporters of employee-sponsored insurance (ESI), such as union bosses, should consider whether it results in consumers finding an insurance plan that fits their needs. Consider what Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute writes in his paper on how to eliminate the tax distortion that has created it:
In 2007, 51 ...
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