Archive for the ‘published’ Category

Boulder drops charges against Seth Brigham

Friday, March 12th, 2010

A couple of weeks ago the Daily Camera published my recommendation that the City of Boulder drop charges against Seth Brigham.  Fortunately, the city did - a day before the publication.   (Yes, this is not exactly breaking news, but the video is worth watching.)Drop the charges. Even if Brigham's refusing ...

RTD’s “FasTracks” on the wrong track

Monday, February 15th, 2010

The Daily Camera (Boulder) asked its Editorial Advisory Board members their views of different sales tax schemes for funding RTD's "FasTracks." My reply was published on Saturday, February 13: Adaptable commuter transit routes, reducing traffic congestion with demand-sensitive road pricing, and minimizing both free-riders and forced funding. These goals should guide ...

Why we’re “crazy” about health care choice

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Originally published in the Aurora Daily Sentinel, January 29th, 2010.  This version has links to references. Why we’re “crazy” about health care choice By Brian T. Schwartz and Linda Gorman Sentinel Editor Dave Perry dismisses the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative as “crazy” and says its supporters “clearly have lost” their ...

The State of the Union’s Fatal Conceit

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

A "speech from the throne." That's how Thomas Jefferson viewed public delivery of the annual speech. Starting with Jefferson's presidency, and ending in 1913, a clerk read the president's message to Congress. How times have changed. Now the president reads the address, but others write it. Nor is the address to ...

Daily Camera article: Health insurers’ “sins” don’t justify “reform”

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

The Daily Camera (Boulder) published a shorter version of my Pajamas Media article from a earlier this month: With so-called health care "reform" in limbo after the Republican Senate victory in Massachusetts, it's worth examining a popular sentiment behind it: animosity toward insurance companies. Namely, insurers` profits, denial of claims, and ...

Proposed Boulder plastic bag ban: authoritarian environmentalism that suffocates freedom & creativity

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Background from Daily Camera: Shopping in Boulder could get greener if some local students have their way. Inspired in part by a ban that passed in San Francisco in 2007, New Vista High and University of Colorado students are drafting an ordinance that would prohibit businesses -- such as grocery stores ...

Government debt: the state lives at the expense of everybody

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

The Daily Camera (Boulder) published my response its  question about the biggest news story of 2009: Government debt. In June Fortune reported that "chronic deficits are putting the country on a path to fiscal collapse." The United States Government debt exceeds $12 trillion, or almost $40,000 per U.S. citizen. By 2019 ...

Why you should hate insurance companies

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Is the for-profit insurance industry a “predator” that “prevent[s] us from having a decent health care system”?  Letter writer Bruce Robinson says so (Daily Camera, December 1). He’s partially right. The real predators are politicians who inhibit needed health policy reform.  But insurers are guilty for concealing how they benefit ...

Insurance company wrong-doing no rationale for government health plan

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

The Denver Post published my letter to the editor on October 31.  (Yes, I just saw it now.) Re: “The cost of failure on health care for Colorado,” Oct. 28 online-only guest commentary. Say your neighborhood deli rigged its scales so that customers who paid for a pound of meat left the ...

HB3962, insurance, and preexisting conditions

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Section 211-213 of HB 3962 basically says that insurance companies must offer coverage (guaranteed issue) and charge the same premium (community rating) to everyone regardless of their medical history.  The November 8  Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) printed my brief opposition to such political controls: Should government force you to pay more ...