Paul Hsieh, MD reminds us of how, in both the House and Senate health care bills the so-called health care "reform" will further empower government officials to tell us what insurance we can and cannot have:
Under any system of mandatory insurance, the government must necessarily determine what constitutes an “acceptable” ...
By attacking Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Democrats want use tax policy to punish people who prefer to buy medical care directly, rather than through insurance. Sounds like they favor the insurance industry, no?
On January 9, the AP reported that:
House Democrats want to require insurers to ...
Dr. Paul Hsieh has a great article in the Washington Examiner about HR 3962 and mandatory health insurance. It begins:
Suppose the mafia came to your town and forced everyone to purchase all their meals at mob-approved restaurants. The mafia would also select the menu items.
If you liked broccoli but their ...
Here is yet another example of how mandatory insurance can make your insurance policy illegal. Writes Wendy Williams in the Wall Street Journal:
...Massachusetts requires every resident to have health insurance, and this year, without informing us directly, the state had changed the rules in a way that made our bare-bones ...
A few months ago Jon Caldara and others at the Independence Institute put together a great video about how Obama Care would outlaw affordable insurance. In All the President's Mandates: Compulsory Health Insurance Is a Government Takeover, Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute explains this in detail. That is, how ...
Life with mandatory insurance, from the Wall Street Journal:
Peter and Kirsten MacDonald of Brockton, Mass., are the kind of young, healthy individuals Massachusetts needs in the system to spread the risk and help pay for it. But the MacDonalds have calculated that they're better off without coverage.
They bought their own ...
We all agree that medical care should cost less and be available to more people. The problem is that most of the health care reform proposals coming from Congress and the White House are reforms designed to give government more control over your medical care. Though the politicians say otherwise, ...
