Look forward to more costly errors at the expense of your tax dollars. The new health control legislation (HR 3590) expands Medicaid eligibility. Linda Gorman points out that Colorado Medicaid's error rate in paying claims is much higher than private insurers. Her reference is the 2009 State of Colorado Statewide ...
"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher
The Denver Post reports:
Temporarily short on money, Colorado has declared a fiscal emergency and delayed payments to doctors and clinics taking care of the state's neediest patients.
Under state law, the Medicaid department ...
The Denver Post reminds us of why government should neither expand Medicaid, nor force us to donate to charities, especially ones run by government:
Roughly 19 percent of new food-stamp applications were delayed statewide in October. For Medicaid, 18 percent of new applicants didn't get timely benefits that month, according to ...
From the Northern Colorado Business Journal:
Bill Ritter today announced a plan that would trim about $320 million and reduce state jobs by about 267 positions in an effort to balance Colorado's budget.
Among the cuts are $18.5 million in savings to the state's Medicaid program, in part through a 1.5 percent ...
"Doctors in Colorado began to see reductions in their reimbursements from the Medicaid program on Wednesday as an effort to fill financial gaps in the state’s budget," reports a recent Denver Business Journal article. This could mean higher premiums for those who with a non-government health plan. Last year Bloomberg ...
