Presidential candidate Mitt Romney might want to talk at length, clearly and forcefully, about the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare ruling. Especially given that this is still on his campaign web site under the heading “Courts and the Constitution.” Justice Roberts’ vote to uphold ObamaCare can be explained, but that’s not the end of the story. I think Romney’s biggest problem isn’t with the constitutionality of ObamaCare, | Read More »
When Roman soldiers fed Christians to lions, no one had to be told he or she could be next. That level of awareness is not so common today. That is why we keep telling people about the Kentucky state government’s arbitrary crackdown on (some) Christians seeking healthcare freedom. The Christian Care Medi-Share case will be back in the news any day now, with a new judge’s ruling. | Read More »
A full analysis to compare health insurance policies usually involves looking at premiums, deductibles, co-insurance, maximum coverage amounts and exclusions. One very important element in the cost of health insurance that doesn’t usually come up is the cost of regulation. The point seems moot because we think of health coverages all being regulated the same way, so there is no reason to consider what those | Read More »
A Kentucky judge is about to send thousands of Christians scrambling for new health coverage when he finds a religious health sharing group in contempt of a court order. Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate said through a spokesperson that his ruling on a Department of Insurance motion to find Christian Care Medishare in contempt of court will come soon. Wingate has no choice but to | Read More »
Christian health sharing organizations, exempt from ObamaCare, have put on a full-court press across the country in recent years to gain exemption from regulation by state governments. Effective July 1, Indiana joins a collection of mostly conservative states who have taken legal steps to secure the rights of Christians to gain private healthcare regardless of federal government actions. Kentucky has completely missed this opportunity so | Read More »
The fight for health care freedom in Kentucky still faces odd resistance from marketers of the closest thing to Liberty-oriented health coverage available to Kentuckians. It’s time for that to stop. As of yesterday, the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries had posted on their web site false information justifying their exemption from Kentucky state insurance regulation. Today, the information is changed but it is still false. | Read More »
An old lawyer saying counsels counselors to bang on the law if they don’t have good facts, to bang on the facts if they don’t have good law and to bang on the table if they have neither good law nor good facts. Senator Mike Lee is an old lawyer, trying to defend Gov. Mitt Romney’s pick of Gov. Mike Leavitt to head his White | Read More »
The Kentucky Department of Insurance has acknowledged receipt of complaints against two Christian health sharing organizations for illegally selling health insurance to citizens of the Commonwealth. The organizations are Samaritan Ministries and Christian Healthcare Ministries. The Department demanded, on Monday June 11, a response from them within two weeks. Such religious-based health sharing organizations are exempt from ObamaCare mandates, sparing their members at least some of | Read More »
Kentucky has a history of being notoriously bad on health insurance issues. We have an interesting opportunity to push back now in a big way, but we need some national help to do it. In 1994, after the failure of HillaryCare, Kentucky destroyed its individual health insurance market by requiring insurers to accept all applications regardless of health status. Dozens of health insurance companies immediately | Read More »
Kentucky law requires health care providers to ask permission of Kentucky politicians in order to expand or offer new medical services. Big Medical, which funds powerful Frankfort politicians’ campaigns, likes it that way so we get bipartisan nonsensical defenses of this approach, called Certificate of Need, every time someone asks. We need to keep asking because Big Medical is running away with the game, regardless of what | Read More »
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