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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Monday, April 28th, 2008
In a previous post I've noted that one of the most authoritarian and paternalistic aspects of Colorado's Senate Bill 217 (as proposed) and the 208 Commission's recommendations is that it would make it a crime for Coloradans not to buy insurance -- as politicians define it. This is known ...
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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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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Remember grade school, when teachers would punish the whole class for the actions of just a few troublemakers? This is collective punishment, which is typically practiced during wartime or under martial law.
Collective punishment has now arrived with compulsory medical insurance. Known as an "individual mandate," it's the law in Massachusetts. ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter does not want does not want health care reforms that "throw more money at a problem without addressing the root causes of the crisis." Unfortunately, the state's 208 Commission does exactly that.
The Commission's favored proposals address the "crisis of the uninsured" by simplistically making it a ...
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