Health Care Cost Shift

Who's Cost-Shifting Now?

Deane Waldman | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Healthcare System, Healthcare Spending, Health Care Cost-Shift, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Moral Hazard, Healthcare, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Deane Waldman

Everyone agrees that healthcare spending is out of control and the cost spiral is unsustainable. The cure for this sickness seems, however, elusive.

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Gov. Hickenlooper's Veto of SB 213 Insults Low-Income Parents

Brian T. Schwartz | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Health Care Cost-Shift, Colorado Legislature, Uninsured, John Hickenlooper, Schip, Uninsured Children, Chp+, Health Insurance, Child Health Care, Denver News
Brian T. Schwartz

For some families, SB 213 would have increased the Child Health Plan Plus enrollment fee to $20 per month. It's insulting to eligible parents to suggest that they would not pay the increased fees.

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Amendment 63 vs. Cost-Shift Hypocrisy

Brian T. Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health-Care-Cost-Shift, Mandatory Health Insurance, Amendment 63, 2010 Colorado Election, Denver News
Brian T. Schwartz

Supporters of mandatory insurance only claim to oppose cost-shifting. In practice, they support policies that, like mandatory insurance, add to the very cost-shifting they claim to object to.

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For-Profit Health Insurance Is Responsible for Large Cost-Shift to Consumers/Taxpayers

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minimum Benefit Insurance, Health Care Cost-Shift, Dr. David Himmelstein, Massachusetts Health Care Reform, Uninsured, Catastrophic Coverage, Underinsurance, Politics News
Michele Swenson

False assumptions that drive the current U.S. health care reform debate are often expressed as common buzzwords: Choice, Competition, Government Bureaucracy.

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