Colorado Health Benefits Exchange: poor access & narrow provider network?

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:48 am, April 2, 2013

[I]f the health plans and hospitals contract with fewer providers, they can exert more leverage on doctors to limit services and keep costs down. Continue reading →

Tech troubles could hobble Colorado health exchange

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:44 am, March 29, 2013

Critical problems threaten the system, ranging from a lack of coordination with the state’s technology office and historic problems with state IT systems to poor oversight by exchange managers and contractors and the potential for serious conflicts of interest among those charged with creating the complex multi-million dollar exchange system. Continue reading →

Mag Ban: A Range Officer’s Safety Perspective of Colorado HB13-1224

by Brian T. Schwartz | 10:07 pm, March 19, 2013

“all three of us would have been criminals because the original owner of the magazine was no longer in “continuous possession” of the magazine and two other individuals had it in their possession during training.” Continue reading →

How Colorado’s Medicaid expansion harms patients

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, March 18, 2013

Medicaid expansion would limit access to care for the significant fraction of the currently uninsured who would otherwise be eligible for federal premium subsidies under ObamaCare. It raises costs for state taxpayers, increases costs for people who are hospitalized, and prevents state insurers from collecting millions of dollars in federal subsidy money. Continue reading →

Colorado Health Benefit Exchange: bare-bones and expensive plans

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, March 11, 2013

There’s mounting evidence that come fall, the health plans sold through the Obamacare exchanges will be bare bones affairs – with narrow networks of providers to select from, and heavy co-insurance once patients go “out of network.” Continue reading →

Return of the PPC Re-Education Camps – You Know You Want to Be There

by Eileen | 8:27 pm, February 28, 2013

As promised, kids, the Collective is bringing back its free classes for activists, agitators, and freelance revolutionaries.  Trust us, this time will be even awesomer. Speaking of awesome, our great friends at the Independence Institute are kindly allowing us to use their basement rumpus room. Topics for the first classes of 2013 are not yet [...]

Twelve Reasons Colorado should say no to Medicaid expansion

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, February 26, 2013

Avik Roy & Grace-Marie Turner in National Review present 12 reasons Virginia, or any state, should not expand Medicaid, Continue reading →

Paul Hsieh, MD: Why Doctors Should Not Ask Their Patients About Guns

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, January 23, 2013

A local colleague, Dr. Matthew Bowdish, has declared, “I will not undermine the Second or Fourth Amendment rights of any of my patients who are lawful gun owners. Nor will I record my patients’ gun ownership status in any medical records that could be accessed by government officials unless relevant to a specific medical issue.” This should be the credo of all freedom-loving physicians. Continue reading →

Colorado Medicaid expansion: Denver Business Journal spreads myth of unsinsured cost-shift

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, January 8, 2013

Medicaid, through low doctor payment rates, increases insurance premiums. This amount is much more than the amount uninsured people increase premiums when they do not pay part of all of their medical bills. Continue reading →

Instead of expanding Medicaid ghetto, Colorado should emulate Florida’s Medicaid premium support program

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:36 am, January 7, 2013

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper wants to drag more low-income people into Medicaid, which is notorious for fraud, delivering lousy care, poor access. Instead of expanding this failed government dependency program, Colorado should look at Florida as an example of effective Medicaid reform. Continue reading →

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