Archive for the ‘health care’ Category
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Published in today's TCS Daily:
Update: Versions have also published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Rocky Mountain News (on-line), the Pueblo Chieftain, and the Independence Institute (with references.)
Remember how in grade school, the teacher would punish the whole class for the actions of just a few disruptive students? This ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Yesterday the Daily Camera printed a letter to the editor of mine in response their Editorial Page Editor's attacking individual freedom:
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Yesterday I was quoted in a Rocky Mountain News article about a health care reform meeting in Boulder:
Though the tide at the Boulder meeting was decidedly toward single-payer, commissioners were quick to point out that the sentiment might be different as they solicit public comments throughout the state.And at least ...
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
To my pleasant surprise, the Boulder Daily Camera printed a few of my comments about the State Children's Health Insurance Program ("SCHIP") that I'd posted on their Virtual Editorial Board [pdf of print edition]. I simply pulled quotes from a Cato Institute brief by Michael Cannon, Sinking SCHIP.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Last week the Rocky Mountain News published an opinion piece I wrote summarizing my case for free-market health care reforms. A scan of the print edition is here.
The 208 Commission is spending your tax dollars to inject poison into our health-care system — the very same poison already crippling ...
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
I had a letter to the editor published in the Daily Camera last week, which was also posted on the Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine blog.
We do not have free-market care
"If the market alone could supply the answer, 47 million Americans would not lack health insurance," stated a Boston ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
I posted the following on the health care blog at Bell Policy Center, a left-leaning think tank in Colorado. I look forward to their comments.
This week's 20/20 will be about health care in the United States. The story on the ABC News website reads:
Healthy in Cuba, Sick ...
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
That's what I ask in an eLetter at published in the Denver Post's website:
Re: “Taking care of our own,” Sept. 6 Pius Kamau column
Dr. Pius Kamau (Opinion, Sept. 5) suggests we “copy those parts of the Canadian and European systems that best suit us.” But which parts?
Surely it’s not timely ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
First, I was quoted in this Denver Post article about a report critical of Health Savings Accounts:
HSAs are an effective way to manage health care costs through the use of high-deductible insurance, said Brian Schwartz, a Boulder engineer who has proposed a free-market insurance initiative to a state commission studying ...
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Saturday, August 18th, 2007
On Monday I had a letter printed in the Rocky Mountain News:
The Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Reform has some nerve. Its favorite plans involve funding government programs by taxing you when purchasing snacks, alcohol and cigarettes (“Healthy living may pay off/Sin taxes could fund statewide medical coverage,” Aug. ...
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