Archive for the ‘letterToEditor’ Category
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
The Denver Post printed the following letter of mine last week (on-line version):
Re: "Who has your health at heart?" May 22 guest commentary.
AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo perpetuate the big lie behind politician-controlled medicine: that the free market is not working and that costs have been spiraling out ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News published my letter to the editor on Tuesday, May 6 (print scan).
Darla Stuart (Speakout April 22) writes that since "Colorado’s citizens and businesses deserve to know the real cost of the health-care insurance," politicians should force insurance companies to provide "transparency." But we really ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News published my letter to the editor on their site earlier this week:
Politicians shouldn’t force grown-ups to buy insurance
In "Health-care reform for grown-ups" (April 6), the Rocky's editorial board says "it can live with" mandatory insurance proposed in Senate Bill 217 if "value benefit plans are indeed ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Yesterday the Denver Post published the following letter to the editor that I submitted. A scan of the print edition is here.
Re: “Health coverage gets new push,” March 28 news story.
Democrats like state Sen. Bob Hagedorn, and state Rep. Anne McGihon want to force us all to buy medical ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News posted my letter in response to this news article about how or if government should force one group of people to buy broadband internet access for another group of people.
Jeff Smith writes that CU law professor Phil Weiser "would like to see public rather than industry ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Yesterday the Daily Camera published my comments on Medicaid as part of their Virtual Editorial Board (printed version). They summarize my longer piece on Medicaid. I'm happy to note that among those that wrote in, I was not the only one critical of Medicaid.
Better yet, Dave Humphrey and ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News has published a letter (print version) to the editor I submitted last week:
Healthcare Reform Commission Chair Bill Lindsey's comments show that he either misunderstands why insurance is so expensive or deliberately misrepresents fundamental issues ("Mandatory health plan participation opposed," Jan. 10).
He wants to force Coloradans to ...
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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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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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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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