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How Obamacare will decrease health care access for the poor
“ObamaCare, by lowering the money price of care for almost everybody while doing nothing to change supply, will intensify non-price rationing and may actually make access to care more difficult for those with the least financial resources.” – John Goodman Continue reading
Poverty, equality, and the free-market
“If left wing political theory is true, we should expect to see huge inequalities in the ownership of goods sold in the market, but fairly equal consumption in health care & education. But there’s the irony. The exact opposite of this prediction has been borne out!’ Continue reading
No equal access with Germany’s “universal” health care
Many people support government-controlled health care because they think it will provide everyone with equal access to medical treatment, regardless of their ability to pay. Ronald Bachman of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation recently visited Germany with other health care … Continue reading
Posted in PPC, regulation
Tagged equality, global budget, health care Germany, international comparisons
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Colorado House Bill 1008: Why women pay higher insurance premiums
Linda Gorman, Director of the Independence Institute‘s Health Care Policy Center explains why Colorado House Bill 1008 is a bad idea: House Bill 1008 would make it illegal in Colorado for insurance companies selling accident, sickness, or health insurance to … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, PPC
Tagged Colorado HB 1008, equality, fairness, Linda Gorman
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Colorado House Bill 1008: force men to pay higher insurance premiums
The Denver Post reports that Colorado “House Bill 1008 would bar health insurance companies from using gender as a basis for setting different premium rates for men and women.” Basically, insurers generally charge women higher premiums than men. Supporters of … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, PPC
Tagged Colorado HB 1008, equality, insurance as forced charity, public choice
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Lack of equality in Japan’s government-run health care
A popular justification of government-run health care is that everyone should have access to the same care, regardless of their ability to pay. Yet, Japan has a form of socialized medicine, but it does not happen here. Consider a recent … Continue reading
Medical care and the ability to pay
The following passage from Virginia Postrel’s recent article in The Atlantic gets to a central premise, too rarely debated, about health care policy (emphasis added): allowing patients to buy drugs to be administered within the NHS would threaten the system’s … Continue reading
Equality and health care
Socialist politician Aneurin Bevan, father of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), has stated that “everyone should be treated alike in the matter of medical care” and that “the essence of a satisfactory health service is that rich and poor are … Continue reading