Archive for the ‘health care’ Category
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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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
On Monday the Rocky Mountain News published a letter I submitted:
George Swan (Speakout, June 15) erroneously equates medical “coverage” with actual medical care. “Access to a waiting list is not access to health care,” wrote Canadian Chief Justice McLachlin when striking down legislation banning private insurance. As David Hogberg documents ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
So says my letter to the editor in the Denver Post this past Monday:
"Universal" health care
Re: "Patient, take care of thyself," June 14 Pius Kamau column.
Surgeon Pius Kamau admirably explains that "each man and woman should be responsible for their own health." Yet, the "universal health care" he advocates as ...
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
John Andrews interview me about my health care proposal, which is summarized in this Denver Rocky Mountain News article. Details on the show are here. And here's the audio file. (Thank you Liz for recording it!)
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
The business section of the Denver Rocky Mountain News published two letters in response to my article published there on April 28. Terry W. Donze of Wheat Ridge appreciated my article, so that's certainly nice to see. According to my web search, he's a geophysicist with at least ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Indeed, I am on a roll. Two more letters just today:
1. Rocky Mountain News
Kudos to the Rocky Mountain News editorial board for explaining how “community rating” regulations on health insurance plans drive up premiums and discourage small companies from offering insurance (“Too quick off the mark,” April 10).
I ...
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
Another letter:
Letter-writer Pam Lacey writes that "health care should be a right" (April 26 Open Forum). If health care is a "right," people can claim the time, energy and wisdom of doctors and taxpayers who provide the care, whether the providers consent or not. This turns the providers into indentured ...
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
The Denver Post published an abridged version of the following letter today. Scroll down on here.
Al Knight (Feb 27) attributes growing health care costs to advances in medical technology. Yet, if this were true, why have cosmetic surgery and corrective eye surgery costs decreased compared to similar services? ...
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Thursday, May 13th, 2004
Last night I saw University of Colorado Law Professor Paul Campos speak about his new book, The Obesity Myth. Not only was Campos entertaining, but his message was important: there is little or no correlation between "obesity", defined by body-mass-index (BMI) and health. Further, this obsession with losing ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2003
My car was covered with a layer of ice this morning. It's hard to explain the satisfaction of removing it with the scraper. I could not stop with just the windows. It was like excavating my car, as if it were an ancient artificact. But there ...
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