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Why Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Will Reduce Health Care Access
Medicaid notoriously underpays doctors, so Medicaid patients have trouble accessing them. When Medicaid eligibility expands, many newly eligible people drop “private” health plans to enroll. Continue reading
Hickenlooper’s veto of SB 11-213 insults low-income parents
Maintaining current Child Health Plan fees would not only be an injustice to taxpayers, but also an insult to eligible parents. The fees imply that parents value enjoying life’s amenities more than their own children’s health. Continue reading
Gov. Hickenlooper wrong to veto Colorado SB11-213
Gov. John Hickenlooper was wrong to veto Senate Bill 213, which would have increased Child Health Plan Plus premiums for families earning more than twice the federal poverty level. What’s unfair is that Colorado compels taxpayers to fund a program that allows eligible parents to value satisfying bodily appetites more than their children’s healt Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, PPC
Tagged Colorado Child Health Plan Plus, crowd out, John Hickenlooper health care, SCHIP
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The immorality of government medicine vs. your right to your own life
To save American healthcare, not to mention to save the country itself, advocates of freedom, free markets, & capitalism must take the moral high ground from the proponents of government-control, Dr. Yaron Brook tells patients and doctors at a Doctors Town Hall. Continue reading
Posted in charity, morality, PPC
Tagged Ayn Rand, Medicaid, Medicare, right to health care, SCHIP
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Colorado SB 11-213: Parents should value children’s health more than sweets & booze
If the state must compel taxpayers to fund CHP+, Senate Bill 213 would increase enrollment fees so eligible parents can more sensibly weigh the costs of their kids’ health care against the costs of booze, tobacco, sweets and movies. Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged Colorado Child Health Plan Plus, crowd out, SCHIP
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Colorado SB 11-213: Parents can afford higher child health plan fees
Colo. SB 11-218: Households earning twice the federal poverty limit can afford higher fees for the Colo. Child Health Plan Plus. Many kids in such households have commercial insurance, & the poorest U.S. households spend more than $100/month on booze, sweets, tobacco, & entertainment. $20/month for one kid isn’t too much. Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado Child Health Plan Plus, crowd out, SB 11-213, SCHIP
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The Road To Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Pre-existing Conditions – The Objectivist – - Forbes
The government takeover of medicine & medical insurance has been an incremental process. At Forbes.com, read about the “general pattern of the expansion [where] advocates point to some group in real or alleged dire need and declare that Washington has a duty to act.” Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, Policy - National, PPC
Tagged Ayn Rand, crowd out, EMTALA, Medicaid, Medicare, pre-existing conditions, SCHIP
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How the Colorado Child Health Plan could save taxpayers $16 million
Colorado’s implementation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program is the Children’s Health Benefit Plan (a.k.a. Children’s Health Plan Plus). It can save Colorado taxpayers millions of dollars by increasing enrollment fees to be comparable to those in other states. Continue reading
Posted in Colorado health care, PPC
Tagged Colorado Child Health Plan Plus, Colorado Medicaid, SCHIP
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Denver Post misleads readers about government insurance
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 … Continue reading
Health care will overdose on “stimulus” package
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 … Continue reading