Colorado HB11-1025 would repeal the phony health care “affordability” act
by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, February 1, 2011 | 2 Comments
Colorado HB11-1025 would repeal the hospital provider tax instituted in 2009. The tax (not a fee) was part of the so-called “Colorado Health Care Affordability Act.” Linda Gorman of the Independence Institute explains how “If truth in advertising applied to legislation, the act’s title would have landed someone in jail”:
In its first year, [the tax] raised health care costs by levying $340.9 million in new taxes on nursing home and hospital bills. State agencies claim that the tax revenues reduce health care costs by increasing federal Medicaid matching funds for the state. But the state only pays for about 12 percent of total Colorado health care spending according to the Colorado Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Reform. If the state gains, it is at the expense of the other 88 percent, the people who pay the bills for everyone else.
Read the whole article at HealthPolicySolutions.org: Colorado’s Health Care “Affordability Act” should be repealed.
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February 1st, 2011 @ 1:50 pm
“If the state gains, it is at the expense of the other 88 percent, the people who pay the bills for everyone else.”
Your arithmetic is sloppy (dollars are not people) and you fail to address the problems that led the Colorado Hospital Association, the Colorado Medical Society and the Colorado Healthcare Association to support this law.
Prior to the fee’s implementation, providers were on the hook for indigent care. The fee alleviated a great deal of that financial burden. Instead of waving ideological red herrings, you might suggest an alternative way to finance indigent care.
February 1st, 2011 @ 10:06 pm
Dork, considering the support from groups like the “Colorado Hospital Association, the Colorado Medical Society and the Colorado Healthcare Association,” is it so hard to imagine that vested interests in an industry would advocate for sweet corporate welfare deals from the federal government candy factory? After, of course, Mordor mandated under EMTALA/COBRA that said industry take in every single person who walks through the emergency room door?
Allow me to “suggest an alternative way to finance indigent care” by offering a simple solution: get the government out of the way. Stop showering the health care industry with newly created money and ever-increasing legislative edicts, and prices will go down enough to provide more people with even greater quality care.