From Michael Tanner at Cato:
Suppose that the federal government, in its infinite wisdom, decided that it would deal with the obesity crisis and improve the health and welfare of the American people — by mandating that every American eat three helpings of vegetables and three helpings of ...
In a recent iVoices podcast Jon Caldara discusses an important issue in Colorado politics this year, the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative:
We hear the questions everyday from folks who want to help us collect signatures or who support what we’re doing: what exactly will this initiative ...
The Objective Standard has published Paul Hsieh, M.D.'s article about how to protect yourself from ObamaCare (HR 3590). Here are the topic headings:To the extent possible, arrange to pay for your medical care directly rather than through an insurancepolicy. - Health savings accounts- concierge medicine- medical tourismAssume full responsibility for ...
David Hogberg at Investor's Business Daily has written a nice critique of the so-called "medical homes" pushed by ObamaCare (HR 3590). A "medical home" sounds comforting, but if politicians are forcing you, or nudging you, into one with legislation, then you should be wary. A few excerpts from the article, ...
Mary Ruwart nicely summarizes how the American Medical Association and legislation biased toward insurance companies crowded out health care mutual aid societies. Today their equivalents are health care cooperatives. The following is from The Liberator Online, June 24, 2010:
QUESTION: I think part of the problem with today's health care ...
Boston Globe Columnist Jeff Jacoby points out an what President Obama said in a 2009 address:
I don’t believe that government can or should run health care.
Yet, at a 2008 town hall meeting in New Mexico, Senator Obama said:
If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ...
From Jon Caldara:
As I hope you know, we have been working to bring to this Fall’s Colorado ballot a citizens’ amendment, the Right to Health Care Choice. Well, we just cleared a massive hurdle. A federal court judge has placed an emergency injunction on a new ...
"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher
The Denver Post reports:
Temporarily short on money, Colorado has declared a fiscal emergency and delayed payments to doctors and clinics taking care of the state's neediest patients.
Under state law, the Medicaid department ...
More illegal insurance resulting from HR 3590, the health control legislation. From Investor's Business Daily:
Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare.
Small firms will be even likelier to lose existing plans.
Read the whole article: ...
Last week I noted that President Obama does not know what health insurance is, and decries real insurance while praising prepaid health plans masquerading as insurance. I also posted about how ObamaCare, HR 3590, threatens real insurance policies, that is, HSA-qualified plans. Maybe the President should listen to one of ...
