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Should you trust the Colorado Trust?
Colorado Trusts’s CEO repeats a common health care falsehood: that the cost-shift from the uninsured’s outstanding medical bills justifies mandatory insurance. While the cost-shift increases premiums, the amount is small compared to cost-shifting from mandatory insurance and Medicaid. Continue reading
Health care bill: fewer insured, higher premiums
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged death spiral, guaranteed issue, HR 3962, mandatory insurance, Massachusetts health, uninsured
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Death by lack of insurance: statistical trickery
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. … Continue reading
The uninsured and lying with statistics
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 … Continue reading
Real health insurance, questionable claims
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado health care, health-status insurance, uninsured
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Colorado HB 1293: “The Colorado Healthcare Affordability Act”
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado HB 1293, Colorado health care, Morgan Carroll, uninsured, uninsured cost-shift
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People who can buy insurance but don’t
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged choice, health care video, uninsured
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Top Ten Myths of American Health Care
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 … Continue reading
Stossel – Sick in America, Part 6
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 … Continue reading
Are the uninsured free-riding?
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 … Continue reading