Colorado’s all-payer database poses serious risk, little gain

by Amy Oliver, Linda Gorman
Colorado state government, and local foundations and health policy elites, have become so ideologically invested in failed health reform policies that they now see nothing wrong with forcing Colorado citizens to give their medical records to a centralized repository, free from scrutiny by state auditors, open records requests and open meeting [...]

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Improving Medicaid with block grants & consumer-directed health care

If Medicaid were turned into a block grant program in which the federal government gave each state a set amount of money, it could improve patient care, restrain the growth in costs, reduce complexity and improve outcomes. Continue reading →

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Pueblo Chieftain: “Auditors rip state health care department”

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 →

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

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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