As usual, government never knows when to quit. Supporters of Colorado Senate Bill 24-022 may think they are protecting people from tobacco. What they are really doing is giving county
If HB 1005 becomes law, people who buy health insurance will be forced to pay even higher premiums to fund changes that likely will not benefit them.
In 2016, almost 79 percent of Colorado voters rejected single payer care.
The problem for voters is that there will never be enough money to satisfy the 4,953 active governments in Colorado.
This mean-spirited bill requires that health sharing groups operating in other states report to the Colorado Commissioner of Insurance even if just one Colorado resident is a member.
Gallagher’s limits do protect homeowners. When house prices rise more rapidly than incomes, unrestricted increases in property tax bills can force homeowners to sell.
The incentives created by Medicare for All would kill the sickest patients, increase disability, drive talented people away from health care, limit innovation, and make it difficult or impossible for Americans to access the care they need.
Unlike 3M, the government bureaucracies that once helped defeat polio and yellow fever are now too obese to even maintain warehouse stockpiles. Taxpayers need to put them on a diet before they crush the private sector that everyone’s health depends on.
The rush to shove this bill through the legislature suggests that state officials care a whole lot more about more tax revenues than they do about the will of the voters, or the welfare of smokers.
If you think your health coverage costs a lot now, just wait until Colorado state government finishes legislating parity for “behavioral, mental health, and substance use disorders.”
The next time your elected representative claims to be doing something about U.S. hospital costs, ask exactly which cost increasing regulations he proposes repealing.
At current spending levels, what schools do is far more important than how much they spend. Amendment 73 pumps more money into existing school systems. Data from the last 30
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