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Colorado House Bill 1008: force men to pay higher insurance premiums
The Denver Post reports that Colorado “House Bill 1008 would bar health insurance companies from using gender as a basis for setting different premium rates for men and women.” Basically, insurers generally charge women higher premiums than men. Supporters of … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, PPC
Tagged Colorado HB 1008, equality, insurance as forced charity, public choice
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Job openings for aspiring health care bureaucrats!
Jim Riemersma of Boulder wrote a clever and disturbingly accurate letter to the editor published in the Daily Camera (Boulder, CO): For recent University of Colorado graduates seeking employment opportunities, I would urge them to consider a career in health … Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged health care bureaucracy, HR 3590, HR 3962, public choice
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Bureaucrats get the best value for themselves, not you
In defense of government rationing of medical care, philosopher Peter Singer writes: The task of health care bureaucrats is then to get the best value for the resources they have been allocated. It is the familiar comparative exercise of getting … Continue reading
Why government cannot run a business
Some great points by John Steele Gordon in the Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration is bent on becoming a major player in — if not taking over entirely — America’s health-care, automobile and banking industries. Before that happens, it … Continue reading
Taxing your beer for politically-controlled health care
Why would politicians do this? Because they view it as a worthwhile political investment for them. Beer drinkers are many, but are probably politically disorganized. Politicians will look like nice caring folks for “providing health care”, so it buys them … Continue reading
Politicians: save us from human nature!
Addition to Tuesday’s post on medical care in the Czech Republic: An intriguing part of Sunday’s New York Times article about medical care in the Czech Republic was a quote by Harvard’s Marc J. Roberts, included in the excerpt below: … Continue reading
Posted in myths & fallacies
Tagged economics, Frédéric Bastiat, Hazlitt, public choice, unintended consequences
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