Tag Archives: insurance price controls

Ten Small-Scale Reforms For Pre-existing (Chronic) Conditions

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

Instead of more political meddling in insurance markets like guaranteed issue and community rating, the following free-market-oriented reforms would help alleviate the problems with pre-existing conditions.  From John Goodman at the Health Affairs Blog: Encourage Portable Insurance. Allow Special Health … Continue reading →

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ObamaCare: Insurers Need Permission to Survive; Citizens, to Live

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

This is the provocative title of Dr. Paul Hsieh‘s recent article in Pajamas Media. It begins: Suppose our government declared that everyone had the “right” to a nice steak dinner. The government would require restaurants to sell $50 steak dinners … Continue reading →

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Colorado HB 1008 hurts both men and women

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

Submitted to the Denver Business Journal last week in response to Governor Bill Ritter’s signing HB 1008 into law: House Bill 1008 poses great threats: hurting women, boosting insurer’s profits, or leaving men uninsured. Now law, the Bill requires health … Continue reading →

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20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

From David Hogberg in Investors Business Daily: …It is worthwhile to take a comprehensive look at the freedoms we will lose [with health "reform" passed]. Of course, the overhaul is supposed to provide us with security. But it will result … Continue reading →

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Get ready for health insurance slumlords

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

My latest article at Pajamas Media begins: If you dislike your health insurer now, just wait until politicians impose price controls that make your insurer act like a slumlord. Expect worse customer service, skimpier plans, and more claim denials. Price … Continue reading →

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Obama Care will emulate Massachusetts’ health “reform” failure

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

he Wall Street Journal reminds us: Natural experiments are rare in politics, but few are as instructive as the prototype for ObamaCare that Massachusetts set in motion in 2006. The bills for “universal coverage” are now coming due, and it … Continue reading →

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Obama’s health care proposal: Putting politicians in control of your health care

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

Some reactions to president Obama’s health care reform proposal released February 22, 2010: Keith Hennessey has a summary and analysis of possible political strategies behind it: Somebody in the Administration put a lot of work into this proposal.  It is … Continue reading →

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The conceit of Obama’s insurance price controls

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

President Obama has wants empower the federal government to forbid insurers from increasing their premiums more than the authorities allow.  Two reactions to this part of the president’s health care proposal: Don Boudreaux, Cafe Hayek on price controls: What cool … Continue reading →

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Insurance price controls hurt the sick

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

A Cato podcast on the insurance company price controls in the House and Senate health care bills: As I summarized in a previous article, when government forces insurers to issue policies to high-risk customers (guaranteed issue), but to also charge … Continue reading →

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Politicians for potholes & expensive insurance

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Brian T. Schwartz

Previous posts on legislation mentioned here: SB 217 (here , here, here, here), HB 1389 (here, here, here). Linda Gorman shows how politicians support potholes and expensive insurance in her latest article at the Independence Institute‘s Health Care Policy Center … Continue reading →

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