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ObamaCare’s high-risk pools may deny coverage
This week the Denver Business Journal and the Denver Post reported on Colorado’s new federally subsidizes high-risk pools (“GettingUSCovered”). But there’s a good reason to be concerned about quality and access. The Hill reports: The Obama administration has not ruled … Continue reading
Republicans, beware the trap of ‘limited’ health reform
Writes Paul Hsieh, M.D. in Pajamas Media: Controls breed more controls. The seemingly innocuous “reform” of requiring insurers to cover all pre-existing conditions would merely set the stage for ever-tightening controls until liberal Democrats achieved their long-held dream of a … Continue reading
One more victim of Medicaid and employer-based insurance
John R. Graham of the Pacific Research Institute offers a great critique of Nicholas D. Kristof’s recent New York Times column. Kristof relates a distressing story about a John Brodniak, who lost his job due to illness, exhausted his COBRA … Continue reading
Free-market insurance and pre-existing conditions
Paul Hsieh, MD has written a review of how a free market in medical insurance would address customer concerns about how changes in health status can effect premiums and insurability. He of course mentions health status insurance as an example. … Continue reading
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Insurance industry volunteers to become government contractor
From the Associated Press: The health insurance industry offered Tuesday for the first time to curb its controversial practice of charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems. The offer from America’s Health Insurance Plans and the … Continue reading
Health-status insurance and becoming uninsurable – a review
As I noted recently, health-status insurance could be a free-market solution to making sure you’ll have medical insurance when you need it, even if you get sick. Ronald Bailey provides a good review of John Cochrane’s policy analysis here at … Continue reading
How health-status insurance addresses pre-existing conditions problem
I cannot remember wanting to cheer and applaud after reading a policy analysis. But this is how pleased I was with a new Cato Institute Policy Analysis by University of Chicago finance professor John H. Cochrane: Health-Status Insurance: How Markets … Continue reading