The II's Linda Gorman keeps the Post reporters on their toes in this post for National Review's Media Malpractice blog:
The Denver Post’s Tim Hoover and Jennifer Brown have done a disservice to their readers with their weakly reported April 22 story “Federal funds will help enroll more people in Medicaid.”
First, ...
Critics of medical care in the U.S. often claim that it costs too much compared to other countries, which have more government involvement than in the U.S. They use this to justify yet more government involvement in the medical choices U.S. citizens make. But it is true? ...
So says Linda Gorman in a new Issue Backgrounder on this bill. Here's the summary:
Adds a tax of as much as 5.5 percent (the tax is called a “fee” in the bill) to every patient’s hospital bill. The potential revenue raised from the patient tax could cost Colorado’s citizens more ...
Linda Gorman does a great job pointing out the misconceptions in a Denver Post news article:
"Patients on Medicare or Medicaid do not have insurance. They have government provided health care."
"[S]ince when is it a “major flaw” in the US health care system when people in it withdraw their labor because ...
When politicians decide how to spend taxpayers' money on health care, they spend it on what is most politically popular. Linda Gorman writes that this means less emphasis on "procedures to save lives in immediate danger" and more "preventive care for the healthy and treatment of diseases with active political ...
From the Colorado Health Institute's Pueblo Insurance Study:
Where there are lower income households and more people over age 65, there will be a higher percentage of the population on Medicare, Medicaid and CHP+, resulting in providers needing to shift more costs to commercial payers. In 2005, Pueblo had 41.7% of ...
From the II's Linda Gorman:
According to the Australian Medical Association, every public hospital in New South Wales is dangerously overcrowded, causing 1,500 unnecessary deaths each year. Patients stack up in corridors and emergency rooms waiting for beds. Hospitals routinely cancel elective surgeries. On September 8, 2008, 23 patients with government ...
The Aspen Times reports that a new Colorado regulation limiting risk-rating has increased insurance premiums:
As the second part of a law reforming state health insurance takes effect this month, some Aspenites with group health plans could see their premiums rise by as much as 25 percent. The bump is in ...
Last year's Senate Bill 217's (enacted in June '08) would have "value benefit plans" that would "encourage the use of a pay-for-performance system for reimbursing health care providers, where appropriate." Barack Obama's health care czar Tom Daschle has written that "one way for Washington to spark improvement would be to ...
Linda Gorman has an excellent article on how state-level insurance controls make insurance prohibitively expensive:
Providing health insurance for everyone who wants it doesn’t have to come with a high price tag. It doesn’t have to come with increased government control of your medical decisions, or less personal choice when it ...
