Will Anthem act like a slumlord health insurer if the CO Division of Insurance forbids them from increasing rates? The Denver Post reports that Colorado authorities are still deliberating about whether to permit Anthem to increase premiums. It's taken as a given that government officials have a right to interfere ...
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 ...
Many people support government-controlled health care because they think it will provide everyone with equal access to medical treatment, regardless of their ability to pay. Ronald Bachman of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation recently visited Germany with other health care policy wonks from the U.S. to learn about the health ...
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter signed Colorado HB 1021 into law last week. The Denver Business Journal reports that it requires "all small-group and individual health insurance policies to include contraception and pregnancy coverage" "Proponents of [HB 1021] said it provides women with services that they sometimes had ...
Colorado HB 1160 echoes what might be the only pro-liberty aspect of ObamaCare. (I did not expect any!) The New York Times reports:
Workplace wellness programs are becoming more and more popular as businesses try to rein in runaway health costs. At American Express, for instance, employees ...
From the Associated Press:
People younger than 35 who are buying their own insurance on the individual market would pay $42 a month more, according to an analysis by Rand Health, a research division of the nonpartisan Rand Corp.
The analysis, conducted for The Associated Press, examined the effect ...
Economist Bryan Caplan asks: How Many Employers Will Stop Providing Health Insurance?
If preliminary summaries of Obamacare are true, it looks like individual health insurance will soon be a better deal than employer-provided health insurance. In the individual market, you can now wait until you're really sick to ...
From David Hogberg in Investors Business Daily:
...It is worthwhile to take a comprehensive look at the freedoms we will lose [with health "reform" passed].
Of course, the overhaul is supposed to provide us with security. But it will result in skyrocketing insurance costs and physicians ...
My latest article at Pajamas Media begins:
If you dislike your health insurer now, just wait until politicians impose price controls that make your insurer act like a slumlord. Expect worse customer service, skimpier plans, and more claim denials.
Price controls on rental properties encourage ...
he Wall Street Journal reminds us:
Natural experiments are rare in politics, but few are as instructive as the prototype for ObamaCare that Massachusetts set in motion in 2006. The bills for "universal coverage" are now coming due, and it appears the state political class is prepared to ...
