Archive for the ‘quoted’ Category
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A March 5 article in Face the State quoted me in Medicaid expansion:
According to Brian Schwartz, a healthcare policy expert who testified before the 208 Commission, Ritter’s plan to increase enrollment in state sponsored insurance programs is only going to grow government unnecessarily and hurt Coloradans in the long run. ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Face the State published an article summarizing the criticisms of Colorado's "Blue Ribbon" Commission on Health Care Reform. I am mentioned in it:
The commission’s majority recommendations come after the panel rejected 31 other proposals submitted for consideration in 2007. Brian Schwartz, a Boulder-based optical engineer, saw his proposal nixed.On ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Linn and Ari Armstrong cited me in their critique of proposals to expand the political control of medicine and medical insurance. Thank you!
The article concludes:
Over the coming months, you may often hear claims that massive tax hikes and expanded political control of medicine will save ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
I was quoted in in the January 4 Editorial in the Colorado Springs Gazette. Here's the quote:
Brian Schwartz, an Arvada-based optical engineer, proposed to the Blue Ribbon Commission a market-based health care reform package that mostly involved deregulation. Commission member Linda Gorman fought for it, but others scoffed.
“One ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Last Saturday Jason Salzman of the Rocky Mountain News cited me and Ari Armstrong as people in Colorado he'd quote for "an extreme free-market view":
In response to my last column documenting how Denver journalists love and embed the conservative/libertarian Independence Institute, some people asked whom I'd quote instead of institute ...
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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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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, 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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