Wed.: Health care policy roundtable - Denver Public Library 2-5 PM

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

From Jon Caldara: The second event is a health care policy roundtable co-sponsored by the Heartland Institute. This event will be taking place at the Denver Public Library from 2 to 5pm. Click here for the agenda including speakers and topics. If you’d like ...

Colorado legistlature helps insurers by mandating wasteful preventive care coverage

Friday, January 8th, 2010

From the Denver Post: A new state law makes some forms of preventative health care more affordable to people who are insured in Colorado. The law, which took effect Friday, assures that services such as screenings for breast and cervical cancer, cholesterol levels and colorectal cancer; childhood immunizations and flu vaccines; and ...

Shawn Mitchell plans to push market-based health reform

Monday, January 4th, 2010

From the Daily Camera (Boulder): Broomfield Republican state Sen. Shawn Mitchell said he doesn't expect to have much influence on legislation as a member of the minority, but he will draw attention to the ways he thinks the Democratic majority contributed to the state's financial problems. "The state saw this coming and ...

Colorado ballot inititiative to block parts of Obama Care

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Update: Become a fan of this cause on on the Defend Colorado from ObamaCare Facebook page. From the Denver Post: Coloradans will likely be asked in November to blunt the impact of federal health-insurance reform with a state constitutional amendment that would attempt to undo some of what Congress is trying to ...

Denver Post: “Udall, Bennet should say ‘no’” to health bill

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

From the Denver Post's Editorial Board on HR 3590: Udall, Bennet should say "no" Colorado's senators should take a principled stand and vote against the travesty that the Senate health care bill has become. In passing a test vote on health- care legislation in the early morning hours Monday, the Senate failed miserably ...

Denver Health code red health care rallies: Tuesday, December 15, 11:45 AM

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Here's your final chance to tell your Senators in D.C. what you think of the so-called "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (HR 3590). Do you want politicians to penalize people for not buying politically-corect insurance -- as they they define it? Do you want mandatory insurance, which outlaws affordable ...

HR 3962 limits competition for dental benefits

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Bob Mook of the Denver Business Journal describes how the House Bill (HR3962) would limit competition and force patients to give up their children' speciality dental plans: Kate Paul, president and CEO of Delta Dental of Colorado, said that the House’s health care reform proposal would disrupt dental coverage for more ...

Mark Udall: wrong on costs, misguided on coverage

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

From the Denver Business Journal on Mark Udall: Udall, D-Colo., said he is “carefully reviewing this legislation,” entitled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But he did say he was “encouraged” that the measure, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled on Wednesday, “is estimated to drive down the federal ...

Free-market health care talk at Metro State, Monday 10 AM

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Economist David R. Henderson will be speaking at Metro State College in Denver on Monday in a Pikes Peak Economics Club event. Title: What Health Economists Know that Obama Does Not Want You to Know Location: Auraria Campus at the Tivoli Room 640 Time: 10 AM - noon. Event details and bio of Dr. ...

Colorado Insurance Commissioner penalizes affordable insurance

Monday, October 26th, 2009

The Sunday Denver Post ran a front-page article about how insurance companies charge women under 40 higher premiums than men.  It also notes that men in their 50s payer higher premiums than women. In any case, Colorado Insurance Commissioner Marcy Morrison considers the price difference to be a penalty: Women should ...