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Colorado Health Benefits Exchange: poor access & narrow provider network?
[I]f the health plans and hospitals contract with fewer providers, they can exert more leverage on doctors to limit services and keep costs down. Continue reading
How Colorado’s Medicaid expansion harms patients
Medicaid expansion would limit access to care for the significant fraction of the currently uninsured who would otherwise be eligible for federal premium subsidies under ObamaCare. It raises costs for state taxpayers, increases costs for people who are hospitalized, and prevents state insurers from collecting millions of dollars in federal subsidy money. Continue reading
Twelve Reasons Colorado should say no to Medicaid expansion
Avik Roy & Grace-Marie Turner in National Review present 12 reasons Virginia, or any state, should not expand Medicaid, Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged Colorado Medicaid, Medicaid access, Medicaid fraud
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Colorado Medicaid Expansion: Remember that health coverage is not health care
John Goodman reviews studies which suggest that there is a severe quality problem in Medicaid. More information can be found in chapter 15 of [his] Independent Institute book, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis. Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, PPC
Tagged Colorado Medicaid, Medicaid, Medicaid access
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Krugman Flunks Health Econ 101
It’s painful to read Paul Krugman when he writes about health care. Makes you wonder how he ever won the Nobel Prize. Continue reading
Should Colorado expand Medicaid per ObamaCare? No.
One of the most tragic failings of ObamaCare is that it will make it harder for many of the most vulnerable citizens – patients with no option but Medicaid – to get care. Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado Medicaid, coverage is not care, Medicaid access
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Study: Nearly A Third Of Doctors Won’t See New Medicaid Patients
If you’re on Medicaid and looking for a new doctor, your chances are excellent of finding one … in Wyoming. Continue reading
Colorado should let Medicaid recipients supplement Medicaid payments with their own money
If low-income families were allowed to add…their own money to the Medicaid rate … we could make high-quality, very accessible primary care available to millions of people. Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado Medicaid, Medicaid access, retail clinics
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ObamaCare: Dr. Orwell Will See You Now
The Obama administration can’t fix the actual substance of [its] health plan. Hence, their strategy is to obfuscate its problems with deceptive language and hope that voters don’t catch on. Continue reading
Medicaid’s Cruel Status Quo: It’s a Medicaid Ghetto
But by ignoring the past success of welfare reform, and ignoring the serious problems with today’s Medicaid program, it’s the Times that is seeking to trap sixty million Americans in a government-run health care ghetto. Continue reading
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Tagged Medicaid access, Medicaid block grants, Medicaid fraud
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