Sunday, April 11th, 2010
How much would you pay for cleaner air? Surely this depends on its current state, the proposed improvement, and if you could tell the difference. The EPA wants you to pay for cleaner air by mandating pollution limits on power plants. Colorado HB 1365 would legislate ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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 ...
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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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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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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 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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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
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.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
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 ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Letters to the Editor ∙ for Daily Camera Editorial Advisory Board ∙ media citings Published articles: 2010 Campus gun ban at CU Boulder ignores reality, Denver Post, August 2. (most-read article that week at DenverPost.com)Also in the Denver Daily News (Aug 6) and the Colorado Daily, August ...
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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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