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 as "crazy" and says its supporters "clearly have lost" their ...
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 ...
Obama Care - more uninsured, higher premiums, writes economist Martin Feldstein in the Washington Post:
A key feature of the House and Senate health bills would prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to anyone with preexisting conditions. The new coverage would start immediately, and the premium could not reflect the individual's ...
Pajamas Media was kind enough to publish my article about the Democrats' "Bizarro" health care reform. Here's the first few paragraphs:
Expect less, pay more. It’s not the slogan for some “Bizarro World” Target store in a comic book; it’s an accurate slogan for congressional Democrats’ health care “reform” proposals. They ...
So explains Paul Hsieh MD in "ObamaCare: A National Version of RomneyCare"
Massachusetts’ system of mandatory insurance drives up costs and violate individual rights
“Coverage” is not the same as actual medical care
The Massachusetts plan will end in rationing.
Writes Grace-Marie Turner in the Wall Street Journal:
Massachusetts is a problematic model on which to base federal health-care reform because the state relies heavily on Medicaid. Washington in 2008 agreed to provide the state with $10.6 billion over three years as part of its Medicaid waiver request, which allows the ...
Here is yet another example of how mandatory insurance can make your insurance policy illegal. Writes Wendy Williams in the Wall Street Journal:
...Massachusetts requires every resident to have health insurance, and this year, without informing us directly, the state had changed the rules in a way that made our bare-bones ...
