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, ...
Ronald Bailey at Reason reports on a new study that says medical innovation increases life expectancy, not spending. Some excerpts:
Columbia University economist Frank Lichtenberg published a new study that suggests advanced medical technologies are not contributing all that much toward rising U.S. health care expenditures. ...
Lichtenberg's key finding is that ...
Pajamas Media published my article today:
Health Insurers’ ‘Sins’ Don’t Justify Reform
Are health insurance companies evil? A web search for the phrase turns up almost a million hits. The common reasons for this passionate indictment are insurance company profits, denial of claims, and rescission of policies. But these do not justify ...
From the Denver Post:
A new state law makes some forms of preventative health care more affordable to people who are insured in Colorado.
The law, which took effect Friday, assures that services such as screenings for breast and cervical cancer, cholesterol levels and colorectal cancer; childhood immunizations and flu vaccines; and ...
Says John Graham at the Pacific Research Institute in a new study:
Medicare Advantage ... allows consumers to get their benefits through private insurance plans. Under the Senate Health Care bill, the Medicare Advantage program, would be cut by about $118 billion.
“In a very narrow sense, Medicare Advantage plans cost more ...
Is the for-profit insurance industry a "predator" that "prevent[s] us from having a decent health care system"? Letter writer Bruce Robinson says so (Daily Camera, December 1). He's partially right. The real predators are politicians who inhibit needed health policy reform. But insurers are guilty for concealing how they benefit ...
The Denver Post published my letter to the editor on October 31. (Yes, I just saw it now.)
Re: “The cost of failure on health care for Colorado,” Oct. 28 online-only guest commentary.
Say your neighborhood deli rigged its scales so that customers who paid for a pound of meat left the ...
Michael F. Cannon (Cato) and Ramesh Ponnuru (National Review Online) list 21 misleading or false statements in president Obama's speech about health care a couple weeks ago. Here's the list. To see why these are false and/or misleading, read the article on how Obama misleads.
1. "Buying insurance on your own ...
Just in case that sounds appearling, William Shughart II of the Independent Institute (CA) makes some good points in a recent op-ed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. An excerpt:
When President Obama told the people attending a town hall meeting on health care that “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, ...
If past cycles are any indicator, we are about due for another round of studies showing that being uninsured kills. Headlines will abound, commentators will wring their hands, and anyone who opposes ObamaCare will be portrayed as an insensitive killer.
The good news is that the majority of the supposed deaths ...
