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 ...
Some reactions to president Obama's health care reform proposal released February 22, 2010:
Keith Hennessey has a summary and analysis of possible political strategies behind it:
Somebody in the Administration put a lot of work into this proposal. It is extremely detailed, and it reads like a best effort to find ...
President Obama has wants empower the federal government to forbid insurers from increasing their premiums more than the authorities allow. Two reactions to this part of the president's health care proposal:
Don Boudreaux, Cafe Hayek on price controls:
What cool adventures await us if Mr. Obama succeeds in giving Uncle ...
A Cato podcast on the insurance company price controls in the House and Senate health care bills:
As I summarized in a previous article, when government forces insurers to issue policies to high-risk customers (guaranteed issue), but to also charge the same premiums as they to lower-risk customers, bad things happen:
Insurers ...
Previous posts on legislation mentioned here: SB 217 (here , here, here, here), HB 1389 (here, here, here).
Linda Gorman shows how politicians support potholes and expensive insurance in her latest article at the Independence Institute's Health Care Policy Center (also at StateHouseCall.org). Some excerpts:
Colorado legislators say they want to fix ...
The Rocky Mountain News published my letter to the editor on Tuesday (print & on-line).
Darla Stuart (Speakout April 22) writes that since "Colorado's citizens and businesses deserve to know the real cost of the health-care insurance," politicians should force insurance companies to provide "transparency." But we really deserve to know ...
Follow up to: Colorado House Bill 1389: Having cake & eating it, too.
In the above post I noted how existing government controls drive up insurance premium costs and price controls are likely to exacerbate the problem by discouraging insurance companies from offering products. Over at Colorado Health Insurance Insider , ...
What would happen if some politicians in Denver required all the major grocery stores like Safeway and King Soopers to carry items that meet the quality standards of Whole Foods items, but cannot increase their prices accordingly? Shortages, perhaps? Might the stores stop doing business in Colorado?
But this is pretty ...
