I submitted the following letter in response to the Post's article by Jennifer Brown that had the headline New Colorado law to help insure 67,500 more:
Government insurance programs steal customers from private insurers. By not mentioning this, the Post misleads readers about how Colorado's so-called "Health Care ...
Writes William Winkenwerder, Jr. and Grace-Marie Turner at National Review:
The health-related provisions take a sharp turn toward greater government control over our health sector, without any hearings or serious debate in Congress and without telling the American people what the changes would mean for their personal health care. This is ...
From the Colorado Health Institute's Pueblo Insurance Study:
Where there are lower income households and more people over age 65, there will be a higher percentage of the population on Medicare, Medicaid and CHP+, resulting in providers needing to shift more costs to commercial payers. In 2005, Pueblo had 41.7% of ...
For an example of how Republicans support the welfare state, consider the reasons Congressman Mike Coffman's (Colorado, District 6) opposed the expansion of SCHIP, the State Children's Health Insurance Program. From his website:
Congressman Coffman cosponsored an alternative plan, the SCHIP Plus Act of 2009, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE). ...
The U.S. House voted to pass a bill to expand eligibility for the State Health Insurance Program. Having government tax citizens to provide health insurance for kids is great way to build allegiance to the state, and hence an electorate who will demand yet more government programs that empower ...
The Denver Post published my letter on Thursday:
New insurance law wastes taxpayer dollars
Re: “The governor’s first two years; Two views of his energy level,” Jan. 4 Denver & The West story.
The Post reports that Gov. Bill Ritter “signed a law that … could result in as many as 50,000 more ...
Last June Governor Ritter signed Colorado Senate Bill 08-160, which expanded eligibility for the the Colorado Children's Health Program Plus (SCHIP in Colorado) to 225% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), "adjusted for family size." Now check out the following graphic from the Heritage Foundation. It shows Congressional Budget Office ...
From the Associated Press:
Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.
Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage ...
Via Michael Cannon at Cato-at-Liberty:
Like other advocates for children’s health, I have an almost religious conviction that the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is effective public policy. ... Although I have no empirical evidence to support the assertion that SCHIP is a beneficial and effective way to invest in ...
From the Rocky Mountain News:
The state program that delivers health care to more than 53,500 needy children and pregnant women is in administrative disarray, state auditors said Monday.
A report on the Children's Basic Health Plan found that 10 percent of patients were classified incorrectly — either as eligible when they ...
