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Correcting the Denver Post on the health care “affordability act”
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 … Continue reading
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Does the U.S. spend too much on health care?
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 … Continue reading
Colorado HB 1293: Tax Sick People to Create a Hospital Slush Fund
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 … Continue reading
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Response to Denver Post: Medicaid and Medicare are not insurance
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 … Continue reading
Distorted priorities of Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid)
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 … Continue reading
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Expand Medicaid & SCHIP, pay higher insurance premiums
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 … Continue reading
Australia’s government-run health care is “down under”
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 … Continue reading
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Pay for Performance Perils
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 … Continue reading