Tag Archives: SB 08-217

Pay for Performance Perils

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

Last year’s Senate Bill 217‘s (enacted in June ’08) would have “value benefit plans” that would “encourage the use of a pay-for-performance system for reimbursing health care providers, where appropriate.”  Barack Obama’s health care czar Tom Daschle  has written that … Continue reading →

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Politicians for potholes & expensive insurance

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Brian T. Schwartz

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 … Continue reading →

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“Kisses of death” attack SB-217′s “Value Benefit Plans”

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Brian T. Schwartz

The core of Senate Bill 217 (previous posts here ) are so-called "Value Benefit Plans" that are supposed to be taxpayer-subsidized plans for low-income individuals and families. These plans are free from the dozens of mandated benefits that drive up … Continue reading →

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Gorman on SB-217 & Compulsory Insurance

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Brian T. Schwartz

Last Sunday the Pueblo Chieftain published a commentary on Senate Bill 217 and compulsory insurance by Linda Gorman , Director of the Independence Institute‘s Health Care Policy Center. Some highlights: With Senate Bill 217, which has passed the Colorado Senate … Continue reading →

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Hagedorn: My bill isn’t like Massachusetts, honest!

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Brian T. Schwartz

Since all things are the same, except for the differences, and different except for the similarities, it is always possible to make things look similar verbally, however different they are in the real world. – Thomas Sowell, The Vision of … Continue reading →

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Patients to Senator Hagedorn: Please do nothing!

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Brian T. Schwartz

Senator Bob Hagedorn is obsessed with not “doing nothing” about health care in Colorado. On March 28 the Denver Post quoted him as saying “I believe it is immoral for us to sit on our hands and do nothing.” At … Continue reading →

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