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Feds won’t add any insurance coverage mandates in exchanges – for now
“Insurance providers will not have to offer any new health benefits beyond what the state of Colorado already mandates … in order to sell policies in health benefits exchanges, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced.” This won’t be a “race to the bottom,” contrary to critics. Continue reading
Authorities to decide what health plans in “exchanges” cover, not a freed market
The political process for controlling health plans is akin to having the FCC decide what features cell phone plans should cover. Surely there would be groups pushing to ban, say, plans that lack unlimited text messaging. This would increase the price of all plans, even for those who never text.
ObamaCare’s Preventive-Care Subsidies: Neither Free nor Cost-Effective | Cato @ Liberty
Read Michael Cannon‘s post ObamaCare’s Preventive-Care Subsidies: Neither Free nor Cost-Effective | Cato @ Liberty. Similar Posts: Michael Bennet: “free preventive care for everyone”! Not. SCHIP director: SCHIP lacks “actual evidence of the benefits for children” Governors Implementing ObamaCare Are … Continue reading
The “Essential Health Benefits Package”: disease constituencies clamor to make it huge
Paul Hsieh, MD describes how interest groups are clamoring to have government require all legal health plans include certain mandated benefits, hence driving up the costs of the most basic health plans and requiring you to buy a plan with benefits you may neither want or need. Continue reading
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Tagged Essential Health Benefits Package, HHS, mandated benefits
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Colorado Democrats celebrate socialized birth control & breast pumps
The Health & Human Services’ mandate on all new health plans (“insurance”) to cover breast pumps and birth control is just one example of how the 2010 health control act turns insurance companies into a vehicle for socialized medicine. Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC, regulation
Tagged Kathleen Sebelius, mandated benefits, politics of health care
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Stores offer free health care, until “reform” forces you to pay for it
John Goodman describes how Sam’s Club and Walmart offer free health screenings, blood pressure tests, cholesterol tests, etc., the health control bill (HR 3590) will make these obsolete by requiring all health plans to cover such services, and requiring us to pay for them. Continue reading
Insurance company fined for selling illegal policies in Massachusetts
From Healthcare Finance News, April 26 2011: According to the [Massachusetts] AG’s complaint, U.S. Life sold health insurance policies in Massachusetts that were not authorized for sale and did not cover health services required by Massachusetts law. The mandated services … Continue reading
How to Insure Americans who have Pre-Existing Conditions
People with pre-existing conditions deserve better than ObamaCare’s price controls. Free market reforms can provide it. Like a hammer that sees every problem as a nail, many politicians think the solution to every problem is legislation that erodes our liberties. Continue reading
Colorado Amendment 63: refuting the “cost-shift” & other flawed opposition
Health care needs real reform, but mandatory insurance does the opposite by entrenching the worst of current policies. It bans affordable insurance, increases costs, and further extends insurers’ government-granted privileges at patients’ expense. Continue reading
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Tagged Amendment 63, Colorado Amendment 63, Colorado health care, Colorado health care choice, Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative, free-market health care brief, mandated benefits, mandatory insurance, uninsured cost-shift
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Colorado Amendment 63, risk pools, & health care costs
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 … Continue reading