THe health control legislation [HR 3590] expands Medicaid eligibility. John Goodman explains how Medicaid's denial of coverage are worse than private insurers:
During the year leading up to the final passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the White House set up a special Web site and ...
A July 30 statement from a group calling itself "Colorado Deserves Better" said that Colorado Amendment 63 (Health Care Choice) "would isolate Colorado from health care costs savings by shrinking the risk pool in Colorado." This is unlikely, and even so, it's unethical.
Even if larger risk ...
"Don't say the "the law will reduce costs and deficit." This is the last line on the final slide of a presentation given during a conference call organized by Families USA, a strong supporter of the health control legislation, HR 3590.
Reports Ben Smith at Politico:
Key White House allies are dramatically ...
Sally Pipes argues:
With each passing week, it looks more and more like Republicans will retake control of Congress this fall. The latest Gallup poll gives the GOP a six-point edge. Rasmussen puts the Republican lead at seven points.
Even if Republicans take back Congress, they won’t be ...
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Ken Buck has said that ObamaCare (HR 3590) is wrong. In Human Events, Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute makes the case that "lawmakers need to scrap the measure in its entirety" and that "incremental revisions just won’t do." Some excerpts:
Incremental revisions just ...
John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis has an excellent column abut health care innovation. He summarizes:
Wherever there is third-party payment [insurance, a health plan, Medicare, Medicaid], the goal of innovation is to produce more products that qualify for reimbursement, even if the effects on patient ...
Amendment 63 : health care choice not a "PR stunt"
Is the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative a "public relations stunt," as a political science professor says? No, it's not. Should a lawsuit against the mandatory insurance provision of HR 3590 succeed, the Feds will pressure states into enforcing ...
In the 9 News article reporting that 130,000 signatures for the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative (Colorado Amendment 63) were delivered to the Secretary of State's office, Rep. Diana DeGette has an strange interpretation of the Initiative's content:
It's hard to imagine that there are too many Colorado seniors ...
Note: This post is not about the proper legal status of abortion or whether it is moral. It's about medical care costs and how patients pay for it. Readers can appreciate the content of this post regardless of their position on legal abortion.
Politicians like to talk about how to keep ...
Michael Tanner reviews a few of Barack Obama's promises about the health control legislation (HR 3590) in a New York Post article:
"The bill doesn't come close to giving "everybody" access to coverage."
"Even further from reality is the president's continued insistence that the new law is 'reducing costs.'"
"Anyone who thinks that ...
