Colorado Consumer Health Initiative takes power from patients, hands it to politically-controlled health plans

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, February 29, 2012

Erik Lessing’s excellent letter to the editor in the Denver Post in response the Colorado “Consumer” Health Initiative’s pro-ObamaCare op-ed. Continue reading →

Jared Polis, you’re wrong: Obamacare is a government takeover

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, February 28, 2012

Colorado Congressman Jared Polis (D-Boulder) claims that ObamaCare is not “a government takeover of the health care industry.” He’s wrong. The only way he could be correct is that if he acknowledged how much government controlled the industry before ObamaCare. Continue reading →

Colorado HB 12-1242 would compromise patients’ medical privacy

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, February 27, 2012

By requiring people to choose between health care and personal privacy, Colorado’s All-Payer Health Claims Database and the proposed HB 12-1242 are both unacceptable infringements of individual rights. Read more in the CO Springs Gazette. Continue reading →

Jared Polis (D-Boulder) wrong about Constitution & mandatory health coverage

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, February 20, 2012

Jared Polis argues that mandatory health coverage specified by ObamaCare is a tax, and hence is Constitutional. The problem with this argument is that President Obama himself has argued that the mandate is not a tax. Continue reading →

The FDA vs. a doctor’s cancer cure & his patients

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, February 14, 2012

The FDA, which instigated four grand juries and two trials during its 12-year campaign to put Stanislaw Burzynski in prison, said it did not matter whether the Texas physician’s unconventional cancer treatments saved people’s lives. The point was that he had failed to get the FDA’s permission first. Continue reading →

Ann Coulter gets booed for cheering RomneyCare

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, February 6, 2012

Ann Coulter, a keynote speaker (with Nick Gillespie of Reason) at the Independence Institute’s Founders’ Night Dinner later this month, has written an article titled “Three Cheers for RomneyCare!” For this she’s been booed in several conservative/free-market publications. Continue reading →

Colorado SB 12-060 – Improve Medicaid fraud prosecution

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, January 31, 2012

SB 12-060 attempts to reduce Medicaid fraud. The Depart. of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) has little incentive to reduce fraud, as for every CO tax dollar it spends, the Feds pay the HCPF a dollar taken from a taxpayer in another state. This is why replacing this matching this policy with a block grant would be an improvement. Continue reading →

Colorado SB 12-053: Why state insurance exchange should be repealed

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, January 30, 2012

The Citizens Council on Health Freedom recently sent out the following e-mail that summarizes key points about why repealing Colorado’s Health Benefits Exchange (SB 11-200) is a good idea: Continue reading →

Pueblo Chieftain: “Auditors rip state health care department”

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, January 24, 2012

Pueblo Chieftain: “The state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing has failed to implement 51 audit recommendations that it agreed to accept during the past two years, auditors told a panel of lawmakers Thursday.” Continue reading →

Independence Institute’s amicus brief on Fed’s mandate to expand Medicaid eligibility

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, January 23, 2012

At the The Volokh Conspiracy, Independence Institute’s Research Director Dave Kopel writes: “On behalf of the Independence Institute, Rob Natelson and I wrote an amicus brief on the Medicaid mandate currently before the Supreme Court. (The ACA requirement that states must drastically expand Medicaid eligibility, or lose all their federal matching funds for Medicaid.)” Continue reading →

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