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De facto death panels: all four pieces in place
All 4 pieces are in place for gov’t to deny life-saving medicine: Health Info. Technology to track doctors, comparative effectiveness research to decide what works, Accountable Care Orgs. to control doctors’ practice, & end-of-life counseling to inform patients. Greg Scandlen explains. Continue reading
“Accountable Care Organizations” vs. private practice medicine
From physician Scott Gottlieb on HR 3590‘s “Accountable Care Organizations”: The health legislation doesn’t call on government tribunals to euthanize seniors, as some fanciful critics claim, but the bill does kill off private-practice medicine. ObamaCare envisions that doctors will fold … Continue reading
Posted in physicians & medical quality, regulation
Tagged Accountable Care Organizations, HR 3590
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Dangers of mandating medical loss ratios
John R. Graham of the Pacific Research Institute discusses the harms of the medical loss ratios mandated in ObamaCare (HR 3590): One of the ways in which ObamaCare will reduce individuals’ and businesses’ choices of health insurance is through regulating … Continue reading
Mandated medical loss ratios promote bad customer service
Arnold Kling points out how mandating a minimum medical loss ratio promotes poor customer service. Quoting Uwe Reinhart: The recently passed Affordable Care Act requires heath insurance issuers to use at least some minimum fraction of revenue from the premiums … Continue reading
Posted in insurance, tax code, HSAs, regulation
Tagged medical-loss ratios, unintended consequences
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Will Colorado Authorities Push Anthem to be a Slumlord Insurance Company?
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 … Continue reading
The AMA & biased legislation vs. health care mutual aid societies
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: … Continue reading
No equal access with Germany’s “universal” 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 … Continue reading
Posted in PPC, regulation
Tagged equality, global budget, health care Germany, international comparisons
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Instead of mandatory maternity coverage, supplemental insurance
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, PPC, regulation
Tagged Colorado HB 10-1021, mandated benefits
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Colorado HB 1160: Wellness programs for discounted insurance
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado HB 1160, insurance as forced charity, wellness programs
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