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 ∙ media citings
2008
Polis implies he’d represent the worst in us, Rocky Mountain News speakout (web only), Feb. 26
"Universal" Health Care Kills (full version w/ linked references)
Colorado Daily, Feb. 24 [print scan], Hawaii Reporter, Feb 29,
Salida Mountain Mail, ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Research ∙ Media ∙ Outreach
Research
spring 2007. Wrote and submitted a free-market health care proposal, "FAIR: Free-markets, Affordability, & Individual Rights," to Colorado's "Blue Ribbon" Commission on Healthcare Reform. Reached the "'Short List' of Proposals For In-Depth Assessment." Available at www.WhoOwnsYou.org.
April 2006. Anticipation or Resilience? Managing ...
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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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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
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 ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
So says my letter to the editor in the Denver Post this past Monday:
"Universal" health care
Re: "Patient, take care of thyself," June 14 Pius Kamau column.
Surgeon Pius Kamau admirably explains that "each man and woman should be responsible for their own health." Yet, the "universal health care" he advocates as ...
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