COOKE: More price controls are the wrong Rx for health care in Colorado

By Senator John Cooke

While impeachment dominates the national news cycle, one policy debate lingers just below the surface: how to deal with “surprise medical bills.” 

One proposal would use the heavy hand of government to impose price controls on treatments subject to surprise billing.

Doctors and providers are adamantly opposed, favoring alternative solutions. Over the summer and fall, millions of dollars have been spent on television and radio ads promoting and opposing price controls (otherwise known as “rate-fixing”). 

Just another debate between competing policy advocates? Hardly. On this issue, doctors and providers are on the side of freer markets. Price controls are yet another step toward socialized medicine – complete government control over health care.

Read the full editorial on the Colorado Sun website.

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