"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Remember this line from The Usual Suspects? It surely applies to health care reform. As the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon has written:
To paraphrase Keyser Söze, the greatest trick that supporters of socialized medicine ever played was to ...
From the Rocky Mountain News:
A bill that would end the practice of charging women more than men for health insurance is headed to a summertime interim committee rather than a fight on the floor.
Rep. Sue Schafer, D-Wheat Ridge, said she plans to amend her House Bill 1224 and get a ...
The Aspen Times reports that a new Colorado regulation limiting risk-rating has increased insurance premiums:
As the second part of a law reforming state health insurance takes effect this month, some Aspenites with group health plans could see their premiums rise by as much as 25 percent. The bump is in ...
Michael Cannon writes in the Washington Times that do avoid disastrous health care reform, we must oppose:
Government-run health care for the middle class (which Obama has proposed)
mandatory insurance
insurance price controls (e.g., community rating)
On point 1, Cannon writes:
Medicare is an unwise model for reform. When private health plans and providers try ...
Linda Gorman has an excellent article on how state-level insurance controls make insurance prohibitively expensive:
Providing health insurance for everyone who wants it doesn’t have to come with a high price tag. It doesn’t have to come with increased government control of your medical decisions, or less personal choice when it ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="152" caption="Senator Max Baucus"][/caption]
Senator Max Baucus's proposal has all the ingredients for failure and eroding our freedom: mandatory insurance, employer mandate, and expansion of SCHIP. Michael Tanner at Cato writes:
You may be perfectly satisfied with the insurance you have today, but that wouldn’t matter. If the bureaucrats ...
There are several ways to respond to people who advocate socialized medicine or single-payer health care in the United States. You can start at fundamentals by point out that health care is not a right, and that governmnt-controlled health care violates the rights of physicians and patients. You can point out ...
From Cato's Michael Tanner:
Q: Will I be able to keep the insurance coverage I have now?
A: Not necessarily. On the stump and in commercials, Senator Obama says that his plan is based on allowing you to "keep your current coverage." But what he is not telling you is that he ...
Michael Cannon has written an excellent critique of an Obama campaign ad on health care. Here's a part on denying care:
Obama encourages insurers to deny coverage. If the average 18-year-old makes $1,000 in claims per year, the average 55-year-old makes $20,000 in claims, and each pays a premium of $12,000, whom will insurance ...
Grace-Marie Turner makes a good case for it in yesterday's Wall Street Journal:
Much to our surprise, the Census Bureau reported yesterday that the number of people in the U.S. with health insurance actually increased by 3.6 million last year. That's the good news. The bad news is that nearly three ...
