Archive for the ‘letterToEditor’ Category
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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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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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. Denver 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 ...
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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, April 28th, 2007
I wrote:
Is it fair to report that CU student Matthew Furnish’s “crime” was possession of “deadly weapons” — especially in the caption under his photograph? (News, April 20) Might have “firearms,” used later in the article, been more neutral? How would the News report the life-saving acts of Kenneth Hammond ...
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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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Monday, January 15th, 2007
This week's Boulder Weekly published my letter to the editor about the book Who Really Cares and an article a columnist had written about it. Here's a link to the print version and the text of the letter:
Wayne's wasted chance
I was quite disappointed in Wayne Laugesen's recent article ("Jesusland," ...
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