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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
