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 charge men and women different prices for the same ...
The Sunday Denver Post ran a front-page article about how insurance companies charge women under 40 higher premiums than men. It also notes that men in their 50s payer higher premiums than women. In any case, Colorado Insurance Commissioner Marcy Morrison considers the price difference to be a penalty:
Women should ...
A fine segment on Medicare from John Stossel's recent special, You Can't Even Talk About It. Some great moments: AARP representative claiming information technology will "have to" bring costs down, even if it won't. He also correctly identifies that Medicare is a Bernie Madoff-like Ponzi Scheme.
Stossel talks more about it ...
Barack Obama says his health care reform "strengthens employer–based coverage." But the government's favoring employer-based coverage has had terrible consequences. Just ask Jason Furman, one of Obama's economic advisors. In an article published in Health Affairs he wrote:
The tax exclusion effectively reduces the price of employer-sponsored insurance relative to insurance ...
Summary: The best defense of Health Savings Accounts is not that they promote wise spending and bring costs down. It's that they are a step toward a more ethical tax policy.
Conservatives, Republicans, and free-market advocates often tout Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) as a means of controlling costs. Yet, critics of HSAs will ...
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 treated alike, that poverty is not a disability and wealth ...
