A July 30 statement from a group calling itself "Colorado Deserves Better" said that Colorado Amendment 63 (Health Care Choice) "would isolate Colorado from health care costs savings by shrinking the risk pool in Colorado." This is unlikely, and even so, it's unethical.
Even if larger risk ...
Pajamas Media has published my article on health care exploitation. It begins:
Scratch a health care “reformer” and you’re likely to find a health care exploiter. As ObamaCare’s provisions and taxes begin and resistance builds through lawsuits and state-level measures, it’s important to see the exploitative motives driving increased political control of your medical care. ...
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter signed Colorado HB 1021 into law last week. The Denver Business Journal reports that it requires "all small-group and individual health insurance policies to include contraception and pregnancy coverage" "Proponents of [HB 1021] said it provides women with services that they sometimes had ...
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 in skyrocketing insurance costs and physicians ...
Colorado Democrat politicians continue their assault on affordable insurance, this time mandating more coverages that policy holders may not want or need. From the Denver Business Journal:
Insurance providers will be required to offer contraceptive coverage in all policies and maternity care in a majority of policies under a ...
Update Feb. 7: Bob Mook at the Denver Business Journal reports that this bill is dead:
Small businesses in Colorado won’t get a break this year on their health insurance premiums — or from new mandates that insurance brokers say are contributing to the higher rates.
On Feb. 4, the House State ...
From the Denver Post:
A new state law makes some forms of preventative health care more affordable to people who are insured in Colorado.
The law, which took effect Friday, assures that services such as screenings for breast and cervical cancer, cholesterol levels and colorectal cancer; childhood immunizations and flu vaccines; and ...
Dr. Paul Hsieh points out some scary aspects of the House health bill (HR 3962) and the Senate health bill (HR 3590):
Under ObamaCare, patients will be forced to pay for certain kinds of medical care whether they want it or not — thus raising their health care costs.
And patients ...
Remember, mandated benefits in insurance plans are hidden taxes. They force you to pay for benefits that you may not want or need, and effectively force you to subsidize other people's insurance. From the Denver Business Journal:
Colorado businesses could get a one-year reprieve from new health-insurance coverage mandates that insurers ...
Bob Mook of the Denver Business Journal describes how the House Bill (HR3962) would limit competition and force patients to give up their children' speciality dental plans:
Kate Paul, president and CEO of Delta Dental of Colorado, said that the House’s health care reform proposal would disrupt dental coverage for more ...
