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 ...
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
President Obama is either misinformed or lying about health care. He said the "free market has not worked perfectly." There's a market, but it's not free. It's infested with harmful political meddling. One example is government's favoring employer-provided insurance, a poison to affordable medical care and insurance.
But unions and Congressional ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Politicians cannot guarantee healthcare, but by trying they can create an unaccountable and toxic insurance monopoly. So beware of Colorado House Bill 1273, which will be heard by the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee on March 18. The Rocky Mountain News described this so-called "Colorado Guaranteed Healthcare Act" as ...
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
The Longmont Times-Call published the following article of mine in the print edition last Friday.
Voters should oppose Ballot Issue 1B, the "Worthy Cause" tax --no matter how worthy the causes are. The sales tax for Boulder County non-profits is wrong and should end. It's wrong for the taxpayers forced to ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
The Daily Camera published my article on the 2008 Boulder County Ballot Issue 1B today. (print version)
Update: The so-called "Citizens for a Worthy Cause" that support this are really the very organizations that receive the tax revenue. See here.
Ballot Issue 1B: It's not Your Penny to Give
by Brian T. Schwartz
Would ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News published a commentary of mine about the inherent immorality of government-run charities and a proposal to challenge such charities to compete with voluntarily-funded charities.
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
(Thanks to Amy at the Independence Institute, versions of the following article were published in the Colorado Daily, Hawaii Reporter, and the Salida Mountain Mail.
What good is having medical insurance if you cannot get medical care? Peddlers of "universal health care" -- from Hillary, Obama, to Colorado congressional candidate ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Update: The Rocky Mountain News published a more polished version of this as a Speakout (web only) on Feb. 27.
Jared Polis is a Democrat running for U.S. Congress representing Colorado's 2nd District. In a Speakout in Wednesday's Rocky Mountain News, he writes:
First, let us not delude ourselves into thinking ...
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Today The Daily Camera published the following as a Guest Opinion (good choice of headline!) Here is one-line version, & here's a scan of the print version.
Government-run auto repair? Yes!
Modeled in health-care debacle, some could clean up
By Brian Schwartz
Sunday, February 11, 2007
"Government-run health care, that's the model for how to ...
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