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Caldara speaks at Colorado Health Symposium’s debate on repealing/replacing health control bill
Jon Caldara points out that what we call health “insurance” is not insurance at all by comparing it to homeowner’s insurance, car insurance, and life insurance. Continue reading
Hickenlooper’s veto of SB 11-213 insults low-income parents
Maintaining current Child Health Plan fees would not only be an injustice to taxpayers, but also an insult to eligible parents. The fees imply that parents value enjoying life’s amenities more than their own children’s health. Continue reading
Colorado Senate Bill 11-019 lifts insurance restrictions on small employers
Colorado Senate Bill 19 would lift restrictions on small business that forbid them from using “Health Reimbursement Accounts” for buying medical insurance with pre-tax dollars. Continue reading
Amendment 63 vs. the Unlicensed Vampire Alarmists
Does the Colorado Constitution guarantee the rights of violent criminals to be armed in prison or when released on parole? You might think so if you believe criticisms of Amendment 63. Amendment 63 would prohibit the state from forcing you … Continue reading
Amendment 63 protects your individual rights
A and virtually fact-free editorial in the Aurora Sentinel says Amendment 63 “has nothing to do with rights and everything to do with legislative wrongs.” Wrong. It has everything to with rights and preventing legislative wrongs. Continue reading
Colorado Amendment 63: refuting the “cost-shift” & other flawed opposition
Health care needs real reform, but mandatory insurance does the opposite by entrenching the worst of current policies. It bans affordable insurance, increases costs, and further extends insurers’ government-granted privileges at patients’ expense. Continue reading
Posted in Amendment 63, mandatory insurance, Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged Amendment 63, Colorado Amendment 63, Colorado health care, Colorado health care choice, Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative, free-market health care brief, mandated benefits, mandatory insurance, uninsured cost-shift
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Morgan Carroll wants to force insurers to sell child-only policies
Update to CO insurers stop selling child-only policies – blame health control bill: The Denver Business Journal reports: State Sen. Morgan Carroll is warning insurers in Colorado to return to the child-only individual health care market or face a “very … Continue reading
Amendment 63 protects right to spend money on your own medical care
Writes Linda Gorman in the Salida Mountain Mail: Passing Amendment 63 in November would ensure that you will have the right to use your own money to pay for the medical care that you think you need. If you live … Continue reading
Colorado Education Association vs. Health Care Choice (Amendment 63)
The Colorado Education Association’s flawed opposition to Colorado Amendment 63 complains that it would block the state from forcing people to enroll in Medicaid and SCHIP. If these programs are so good, why do they need to force people? Continue reading
Doctor misleads voters on Colorado Amendment 63 (health care choice)
Dr. Stephen Berman is president of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a a professor with the Dept. of Pediatrics in the CU School of Medicine. His commentary in the Denver Post (Sept. 23) so misrepresents Amendment 63 that I wonder if he’s even read it. Continue reading