Originally published in the Aurora Daily Sentinel, January 29th, 2010. This version has links to references.
Why we’re “crazy” about health care choice
By Brian T. Schwartz and Linda Gorman
Sentinel Editor Dave Perry dismisses the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative as “crazy” and says its supporters “clearly have lost” their ...
Section 211-213 of HB 3962 basically says that insurance companies must offer coverage (guaranteed issue) and charge the same premium (community rating) to everyone regardless of their medical history. The November 8 Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) printed my brief opposition to such political controls:
Should government force you to pay more ...
Yes, their grimy hands are already on it, and that's the problem. From Patients First:
While millions of Americans spoke up during the summer against a government takeover of health care, Congress has retreated to its bubble and ignored your concerns. We need to remind them we still oppose a trillion ...
BBC News reports that British "doctors are keeping cancer patients in the dark about expensive new drugs that could extend their lives." Why? Rationing under the UK's single-payer health care. Single-payer advocates Lyn Gullette and Barry Karlin have done something similar to Camera readers regarding health care reform options (Guest ...
Senator Michael Bennet says that "health care reform must shift control from insurance companies to doctors, nurses and their patients." If so, he should oppose the Democrats' so-called health care "reform." Insurance companies have too much control because politicians have handed it to them through tax laws that give preferential ...
In just 90 seconds this new health reform video highlights the upside-down priorities of Oregon's Medicaid system. Lobbying groups have used the political process to push coverage for special-interest causes. This video is based on research Linda Gorman, Director of the Health Policy Center at the the Independence Institute. Read ...
In response to the question: "As Congress debates health care reform, tell us what -- if anything -- you think should be changed about the U.S. health care system?"
Having a health care "system" is itself the problem. It implies that politicians dictate your medical choices, at your expense, regardless of ...
This video by the Independence Institute shows one downside we can expect from a nation-wide mandate that we all buy insurance -- as politicians define it.
For more on why and how the "Massachusetts Model" would drive up costs and lead to political rationing of medical care, see here.
"The 'public plan' will be the only plan" says health care economist Scott Harrington of the proposed government-run health plan. Be suspicious: "public plan" supporters want it to be the only plan.
President Obama uses rhetoric of "choice" and "competition" to push the "public plan." But he has declared his ...
President Obama is either misinformed or lying about health care. He said the "free market has not worked perfectly." There's a market, but it's not free. It's infested with harmful political meddling. One example is government's favoring employer-provided insurance, a poison to affordable medical care and insurance.
But unions and Congressional ...
