May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
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Medicaid funds shouldn’t be used to subsidize state taxes on health care0
- December 5, 2017
Medicaid patients are the losers. Studies suggest that higher Medicaid reimbursements are associated with better care, and that Medicaid patients are more likely to be treated by lower quality hospitals and less highly trained physicians. Recent studies also suggest that the health reforms favored by state and federal governments have done little to improve quality or reduce costs.
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Using the False Claims Act to second-guess what patients need: Hungry relators, outsized DOJ recoveries, and the adverse consequences for American health care0
- September 25, 2017
The FCA’s aggressive use in health care cases by both the government and private parties means that nowadays, allegations go well beyond “fraud” in any traditional sense of that word, allowing the government and relators’ lawyers to retroactively second-guess physician decision-making, all the while wielding the formidable threat of treble damages and potentially crippling penalties.
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How flawed government health coverage incentives lead to poor quality care0
- February 10, 2017
by Linda Gorman Data from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) and the Colorado Hospital Association show that government health programs are not paying their way. Colorado’s Medicaid program pays 75 percent of its patients’ hospital costs. Medicare pays just 72 percent. People who pay for their own health care pay 158
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How a Conspiracy Cracked a Monopoly0
- December 1, 2013
Anyone interested in the constitutional debate over the “Affordable Care Act” should pick up a copy of the new book, A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case. This “conspiracy” was not a political plot or an illegal combination. Rather, it is one of the nation’s two top constitutional law websites—a
READ MOREColorado Medicaid expansion would make 86,000 college students eligible0
- January 24, 2013
by Linda Gorman Gov. John Hickenlooper wants yet another expansion of Colorado Medicaid. This one will cover the more than 86,000 college students in Colorado that the Census Bureau estimates have incomes below the federal poverty level. It also will cover the unknown number of otherwise healthy single students above the poverty level who have
READ MOREMedicaid expansion has hidden costs0
- January 6, 2013
by Linda Gorman The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has radically restructured federal subsidy programs for medical care. For the first time in decades, Colorado can begin bringing state expenditures in line with tax revenues by using federal money to reverse the excessive growth in its Medicaid and child health insurance programs.
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