Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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 ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
To:
Stephen Kapanos, Vice President Public Policy & Advocacy
Bill Lindsay and Penfield Tate, Health Care Committee, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
Elisabeth Arenales, Esq., Director, Health Care Program, Colorado Center on Law and Policy
Mental Health America of Colorado, Colorado Center on Law and Policy, and the Denver Metro Chamber of ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
I've written about the injustices of Medicaid: It provides lousy care, make prescriptions more expensive for everyone, and fosters government dependence by inhibiting self-reliance. And get this, last week the Wall Street Journal reported that state governments use it as a money laundering scheme (HT, FIRM).
Too bad you become a ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Earlier this month The Rocky Mountain News published a commentary of mine about the inherent immorality of government-run charities (in this case, those for children's health insurance) and a proposal to challenge such charities to compete with voluntarily-funded charities.
The budget: An “immoral document”
A “moral document.” This is what Colorado House ...
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