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Questions about the “right” to health care
The alleged “right” to health care lurks behind increasing government involvement in medicine. If there were such a right, asks Stefan Molyneux, “when does a woman in the process of becoming a doctor switch from someone with a right to receive health care to someone with an obligation to provide it?” Continue reading
Colorado Amendment 63: refuting the “cost-shift” & other flawed opposition
Health care needs real reform, but mandatory insurance does the opposite by entrenching the worst of current policies. It bans affordable insurance, increases costs, and further extends insurers’ government-granted privileges at patients’ expense. Continue reading
Posted in Amendment 63, mandatory insurance, Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged Amendment 63, Colorado Amendment 63, Colorado health care, Colorado health care choice, Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative, free-market health care brief, mandated benefits, mandatory insurance, uninsured cost-shift
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Health care innovation: good and bad
John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis has an excellent column abut health care innovation. He summarizes: Wherever there is third-party payment [insurance, a health plan, Medicare, Medicaid], the goal of innovation is to produce more products that … Continue reading
The ObamaCare scam
The Daily Camera asked its editorial advisory board members their view of ObamaCare, formally HR 3590. My response was published in the March 27 edition: ObamaCare is a scam. It further empowers politicians to dictate how you seek medical care … Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged free-market health care brief, insurance as forced charity
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Health care “reform” bill is immoral & won’t work
[[If your on Patient Power's front page, scroll down for more recent posts.] Here’s a summary of arguments against so-called health care “reform,” specifically, the Senate Bill, HR 3590. It might be useful when contacting a member of Congress (e.g., … Continue reading
Liberty vs. Newt’s “Top 10 GOP” health care ideas
Last week the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Newt Gingrich and John Goodman titled “Ten GOP Health Ideas for Obama.” John Goodman is a great resource on health care policy, and I read his blog regularly. But this … Continue reading
Free-markets: how to fix health care
From Reason.tv: Make no mistake about it. Health care reform is coming. But what’s the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors, third-party payers, public subsidies, and innumerable state and federal … Continue reading
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Tagged free-market health care brief, health care video, laser-eye-surgery, patient-as-customer
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Free-market health care talk at Metro State, Monday 10 AM
Economist David R. Henderson will be speaking at Metro State College in Denver on Monday in a Pikes Peak Economics Club event. Title: What Health Economists Know that Obama Does Not Want You to Know Location: Auraria Campus at the … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, PPC
Tagged Colorado health care, free-market health care brief
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Why Obama’s Government Takeover of Health-Care Will Be a Disaster
This is the title of the new pamphlet by David Gratzer, MD, author of The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care. It’s a brief and powerful summary of what’s wrong with Democrat politicians’ proposals to “reform” health care … Continue reading
ObamaCare and health “reform” myths
Ari and Linn Armstrong summarize a few of myths, lies, and distortions about ObamaCare in their latest column in the Grand Junction Free Press: Myth No. 1: Opponents of Obamacare are the ones creating myths. Myth No. 2: Opponents of … Continue reading