Category Archives: regulation

Government regulations on insurance and medical care, e.g., mandated benefits, community rating, guaranteed issue, price controls, licensing

ObamaCare Regulations Reduce Choice in Health Insurance

Premium increases have not slowed down, price controls on premiums do not work, and “New evidence continues to support the conclusion that Obamacare will lead to less choice of health insurance.” Continue reading

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Mitt #Romney & Massachusetts health care price controls

Romney’s claim that the Massachusetts plan didn’t include price controls may have been technically true at the time the law was passed. But he helped create an unsustainable system that has quickly and predictably led to price controls — with still more to come. Hence, Romney’s claim is disingenuous if not downright misleading. Continue reading

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#ThanksObamacare for ineffective authoritarian health plan rate review

Progress Now and the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative “thank Obamacare” for allowing “states to require insurance companies to justify premium increases. But data on insurance premiums does not show that these controls lower premiums. Yet, they do violate our rights to free-trade & have potential harmful consequences. Continue reading

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State regulations force insurers out of market, Obamacare will make it worse

“Millions of people are losing the coverage they have now, and tens of millions more surely will follow, … Some insurance carriers are leaving the market because of onerous state regulations, others are victims of a faltering economy, but the cascade has been accelerated by the rules that already have taken effect and the many more that are to come as a result of ObamaCare.” Continue reading

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The Moral Case for Allowing Kidney Sales

Prof. James Stacey Taylor argues that willing rational adults should be allowed to buy and sell kidneys. Continue reading

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North Dakota Rejects ObamaCare ‘Exchange’

“I certainly am not going to legitimize Obamacare with my vote,” said Rep. Wes Belter, R-Fargo. “We, as a state of North Dakota, need to follow some of the other states who have said no… It is the law, but the fight should not be over.” Continue reading

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Obamacare-style price controls succeed in New York: ‘tens of thousands’ to lose their health care coverage

Government denials of rate increases result in insurer choosing to stop selling small group plans in New York state. Continue reading

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Employer mandate for “affordable coverage” creates confusing incentives for employers, employees

If [an employer] does offer health insurance, the worker with dependents will prefer that the coverage is unaffordable. That’s not a typo — if the coverage is unaffordable, then the employee will be able to buy health insurance for his family on the exchange. Continue reading

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Colorado’s health insurance exchange: controlled by Feds, limited choice

State-based insurance exchanges will be largely controlled by federal edicts. They will not give Americans the same insurances choices as Congress members, and they limit choice. Continue reading

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Colorado Democrats celebrate socialized birth control & breast pumps

The Health & Human Services’ mandate on all new health plans (“insurance”) to cover breast pumps and birth control is just one example of how the 2010 health control act turns insurance companies into a vehicle for socialized medicine. Continue reading

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