To:
Stephen Kapanos, Vice President Public Policy & Advocacy
Bill Lindsay and Penfield Tate, Health Care Committee, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
Elisabeth Arenales, Esq., Director, Health Care Program, Colorado Center on Law and Policy
Mental Health America of Colorado, Colorado Center on Law and Policy, and the Denver Metro Chamber of ...
I've written about the injustices of Medicaid: It provides lousy care, make prescriptions more expensive for everyone, and fosters government dependence by inhibiting self-reliance. And get this, last week the Wall Street Journal reported that state governments use it as a money laundering scheme (HT, FIRM).
Too bad you become a ...
In February the Denver Post reported that
Coloradans using a new state prescription program for lower-income people will end up paying more for most drugs than they would at chain pharmacies, according to a Denver Post cost comparison.
Meanwhile, last week the Associated Press reported that Walmart
would expand its discounted prescription drug ...
The essence of lying is the intent to deceive.
Families USA has issued a press release claiming that the Bush Administration's FY2009 budget contains "cuts in federal Medicaid payments." Yet, as Linda Gorman points out at StateHouseCall.org (and in the Rocky Mountain News ), these "cuts" are merely reductions ...
Advocates for more government control of health care like to say that having only one "insurer" will simplify billing. For a brief introduction to their 68-slide version of simple billing, browse through the Colorado Medical Assistance Billing Program 2007 Practioner Billing Workshop, available here .
Administrative overhead anyone?
Earlier this month The Rocky Mountain News published a commentary of mine about the inherent immorality of government-run charities (in this case, those for children's health insurance) and a proposal to challenge such charities to compete with voluntarily-funded charities.
The budget: An “immoral document”
A “moral document.” This is what Colorado House ...
Colorado's 208 Commission has released detailed evaluations of its four favored health care reform proposals. The Commission's goals include improving access, encouraging personal responsibility, and supporting a "financially viable, sustainable and fair" system. Yet these proposals preserve or expand Medicaid, which fails to meet these goals. This is documented in ...
