Update to: "Worthy Cause Tax": It's not Your Penny to Give.
In a letter published in the Boulder Daily Camera, Rich Miller writes:
Citizens for a Worthy Cause sent out a glossy mailing this past week, encouraging voters to approve Boulder County 1B. Issue 1B will continue an existing sales tax and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
To my pleasant surprise, the Boulder Daily Camera printed a few of my comments about the State Children's Health Insurance Program ("SCHIP") that I'd posted on their Virtual Editorial Board [pdf of print edition]. I simply pulled quotes from a Cato Institute brief by Michael Cannon, Sinking SCHIP.
Last week the Rocky Mountain News published an opinion piece I wrote summarizing my case for free-market health care reforms. A scan of the print edition is here.
The 208 Commission is spending your tax dollars to inject poison into our health-care system — the very same poison already crippling ...
Letters to the Editor ∙ for Daily Camera Editorial Advisory Board ∙ media citings
Published articles:
2010
Why we’re “crazy” about health care choice, Aurora Daily Sentinel, January 29th
(version with linked references)
Health Insurers’ ‘Sins’ Don’t Justify Reform, Pajamas Media, January 8
Shorter version in the Daily Camera (Boulder), January 24 and Denver Daily ...
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 ...
So says the headline of my article in the Boulder Daily Camera today. A scan of the print version is here. The first half of the article is pretty much the same as the one that appeared in the Denver Post a few weeks ago. The second ...
