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Ann Coulter gets booed for cheering RomneyCare
Ann Coulter, a keynote speaker (with Nick Gillespie of Reason) at the Independence Institute’s Founders’ Night Dinner later this month, has written an article titled “Three Cheers for RomneyCare!” For this she’s been booed in several conservative/free-market publications. Continue reading
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Tagged Mitt Romney health care, Republicans & health care
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Colorado SB 12-060 – Improve Medicaid fraud prosecution
SB 12-060 attempts to reduce Medicaid fraud. The Depart. of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) has little incentive to reduce fraud, as for every CO tax dollar it spends, the Feds pay the HCPF a dollar taken from a taxpayer in another state. This is why replacing this matching this policy with a block grant would be an improvement. Continue reading
Colorado SB 12-053: Why state insurance exchange should be repealed
The Citizens Council on Health Freedom recently sent out the following e-mail that summarizes key points about why repealing Colorado’s Health Benefits Exchange (SB 11-200) is a good idea: Continue reading
Pueblo Chieftain: “Auditors rip state health care department”
Pueblo Chieftain: “The state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing has failed to implement 51 audit recommendations that it agreed to accept during the past two years, auditors told a panel of lawmakers Thursday.” Continue reading
Independence Institute’s amicus brief on Fed’s mandate to expand Medicaid eligibility
At the The Volokh Conspiracy, Independence Institute’s Research Director Dave Kopel writes: “On behalf of the Independence Institute, Rob Natelson and I wrote an amicus brief on the Medicaid mandate currently before the Supreme Court. (The ACA requirement that states must drastically expand Medicaid eligibility, or lose all their federal matching funds for Medicaid.)” Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution & health care, federalism
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Colorado Senate Bill 12-032: Medicaid block grants, vouchers, & premiums
Sen. Greg Bropy’s Colorado Senate Bill 12-032 promotes three good Medicaid reforms: replacing federal matching funds with block grants, increasing co-pays and premiums, and turning Medicaid into a voucher program for (nominally) private insurance. Continue reading
ObamaCare: Economic control becomes political control
“When the state has the final say on the economy, the political opposition needs the permission of the state to act, speak and write. Economic control becomes political control.” – Russ Roberts Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged Hayek & health care, HHS, HR 3590, Kathleen Sebelius, ObamaCare
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The left segregates the poor into inferior socialist programs while others enjoy semi-free markets
The left’s entire approach to poverty is to segregate the poor into inferior public provision, while the rest of society enjoys the benefits of quasi-private provision. It’s as though the left wing in American politics wants socialism for the poor and capitalism for everyone else. Continue reading
Authorities to decide what health plans in “exchanges” cover, not a freed market
The political process for controlling health plans is akin to having the FCC decide what features cell phone plans should cover. Surely there would be groups pushing to ban, say, plans that lack unlimited text messaging. This would increase the price of all plans, even for those who never text.
Screening for Terrorists vs. Screening for Cancer
Our government currently tells air travelers, “Submit to our screening despite the dubious effectiveness, bodily invasion, and needless emotional distress” while simultaneously telling patients, “Don’t undergo cancer screening because it might lead to further bodily invasion and emotional distress.” Continue reading