Mass. employers drop coverage, put employees to public dole

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Surprise, a tax-funded health insurance program encourages employers to stop offering their employees coverage. More people become dependent on a government program for health insurance, which then results in a constituency that supports the program.  Government dependency grows again, and politicians gain more power over our lives.  The Boston Globe reports: The ...

ObamaCare and increased wait times

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Peter Suderman at Reason notes that waiting times for physicians increased in Massachusetts increased after politicians passed health control legislation there.  Don't be surprised if the same happens across the country. Quoted in The Hill, The Chief Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says The supply of doctors ...

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

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

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 to all comers. But to keep ...

Massachusetts’ bills propose to enslave doctors

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Either provide medical treatment to people at prices we set, or lose your license to practice medicine in Massachusetts.  Both bills in question are Senate Bill 2170 and House Bill 4452 contain such language. Both the House Billand Senate Bill contain the following: Every health care provider licensed in the commonwealth ...

ObamaCare: buy insurance only when you have medical expenses

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

The Boston Globe reports: Thousands of consumers are gaming Massachusetts’ 2006 health insurance law by buying insurance when they need to cover pricey medical care, such as fertility treatments and knee surgery, and then swiftly dropping coverage, a practice that insurance executives say is driving up costs ...

Obama Care will emulate Massachusetts’ health “reform” failure

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

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 appears the state political class is prepared to ...

Why we’re “crazy” about health care choice

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Originally published in the Aurora Daily Sentinel, January 29th, 2010.  This version has links to references. Why we're "crazy" about health care choice By Brian T. Schwartz and Linda Gorman Sentinel Editor Dave Perry dismisses the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative [Colorado Amendment 63] as "crazy" and says its supporters "clearly ...

Cato’s David Boaz on Scott Brown’s victory

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

David Boaz, Executive VP of the Cato Institute, has a well-linked post with some good insights. Some excerpts: Scott Brown takes over a seat in the United States Senate that has been held by one family (including its seat-fillers) for just over 57 years, since John F. Kennedy was elected to ...

Massachusetts election & Obama Care

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Physician David Gratzer explains the significance: On Jan. 19, Massachusetts votes for a new senator. Will the Bay State upend politics the way Pennsylvania did in 1991, sending Washington a strong message on health care? Bay State voters may be decidedly liberal, but they understand a thing or two about sweeping health ...

Mark Udall: wrong on costs, misguided on coverage

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

From the Denver Business Journal on Mark Udall: Udall, D-Colo., said he is “carefully reviewing this legislation,” entitled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But he did say he was “encouraged” that the measure, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled on Wednesday, “is estimated to drive down the federal ...