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 "one way for Washington to spark improvement would be to ...
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 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 the cost of insurance in the individual and small ...
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 and awaits House action, state lawmakers who believe that higher taxes ...
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 the Anointed (p. 93 , 102 )
Sowell has recently pointed ...
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 an April 9 meeting of the Senate Health and Human ...
