Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
The core of Senate Bill 217 (previous posts here ) are so-called "Value Benefit Plans" that are supposed to be taxpayer-subsidized plans for low-income individuals and families. These plans are free from the dozens of mandated benefits that drive up the cost of insurance in the individual and small ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Last Sunday the Pueblo Chieftain published a commentary on Senate Bill 217 and compulsory insurance by Linda Gorman , Director of the Independence Institute's Health Care Policy Center. Some highlights:
With Senate Bill 217, which has passed the Colorado Senate and awaits House action, state lawmakers who believe that higher ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Earlier this month The Rocky Mountain News published a commentary of mine about the inherent immorality of government-run charities (in this case, those for children's health insurance) and a proposal to challenge such charities to compete with voluntarily-funded charities.
The budget: An “immoral document”
A “moral document.” This is what Colorado House ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
So says a study by consulting firm Watson & Wyatt . The original press release from Watson & Wyatt Consulting is here . Some excerpts:
More than three-quarters (84 percent) of employers do not support a single-payer system such as universal health care coverage. Instead, 78 percent favor ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Since all things are the same, except for the differences, and different except for the similarities, it is always possible to make things look similar verbally, however different they are in the real world.
-- Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed (p. 93 , 102 )
Sowell has recently ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Senator Bob Hagedorn is obsessed with not "doing nothing" about health care in Colorado. On March 28 the Denver Post quoted him as saying "I believe it is immoral for us to sit on our hands and do nothing." At an April 9 meeting of the Senate Health ...
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