Obama Care - more uninsured, higher premiums, writes economist Martin Feldstein in the Washington Post:
A key feature of the House and Senate health bills would prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to anyone with preexisting conditions. The new coverage would start immediately, and the premium could not reflect the individual's ...
If past cycles are any indicator, we are about due for another round of studies showing that being uninsured kills. Headlines will abound, commentators will wring their hands, and anyone who opposes ObamaCare will be portrayed as an insensitive killer.
The good news is that the majority of the supposed deaths ...
David Harsanyi has another great column in the Denver Post, this time how many people in the U.S. are uninsured. Some excerpts:
Did you know that about 300 million Americans went without food, water and shelter at some point last year?
I am a survivor.
If you were blessed with the prodigiously creative ...
In response to Bill Scanlon's article in the new InDenverTimes:
I agree that no one in the U.S. really has health insurance. Thanks to a tax code that discounts employer-sponsored insurance, It's tied to your job (for most people), so you can lose it with job loss. This also exposes you ...
This sounds like a way to get you to pay for other people's health care, and not address the real problems of high medical and insurance costs.
From the Denver Daily News:
The Colorado Healthcare Affordability Act (CHAA), introduced last week as House Bill 1293 seeks to provide health coverage for up ...
This video at Reason.tv suggests that many people who lack health insurance can afford it, but choose not to.
From Reason.tv:
“Of people currently classified as uninsured, a conservative estimate says about 45 percent of them would be able to get health insurance right now if they wanted it,” says economist Glen ...
Sally Pipes from the Pacific Research Institute has published this new book through . Here's the Table of Contents:
Foreword by Steve Forbes
Myth One: Government Health Care Is More Efficient
Myth Two: We're Spending Too Much on Health Care
Myth Three: Forty-Six Million Americans Can't Get Health Care
Myth Four: High Drug Prices Drive ...
Continued from Part 5.
Topics:
Competition has begun to improve America's health care. Example, laser eye surgeons, cosmetic surgeons. Costs decreases, quality increases. Patients pay doctors directly.
Medical clinics staffed by nurse practioners. Inexpensive routine care. E.g., RediClinic, MinuteClinic.
Doctors who do not accept insurance. E.g., Patmos EmergiClinic. Uninsured patients save money, providers keep costs ...
A common rationale for compulsory, mandatory insurance is that the uninsured are free-riders, so it's OK to force them to buy insurance. In a previous post I addressed how even if there are free-riders, mandatory insurance does not follow.
Michael Cannon at Cato suggests that they are not free-riders anyway. Some excerpts:
Many uninsured people show ...
It's become a mantra that there are "47 million uninsured" Americans, a figure people use to back compulsory "universal" health insurance of some kind. Google found about fifty pages with the phrase on the Denver Post website alone. Democrat Jared Polis has mentioned 45 million, while Democrat Will Shafroth 50 million. Sure, 47 million ...
