Saturday, March 27th, 2010
The Daily Camera asked its editorial advisory board members their view of ObamaCare, formally HR 3590. My response was published in the March 27 edition: ObamaCare is a scam. It further empowers politicians to dictate how you seek medical care and support charities. Politicians should protect, rather than ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
From Americans for Prosperity: 1. Go to Honkno.com and sign up to take part in the "Honk Against the Health Care Takeover" event at 12 Noon your time [Tuesday]. It's simple and fun. You go to the website, punch in your zip code and up pops the closest congressional district offices ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
Big week for health care. The U.S House of Representatives is likely to vote this week in a bill that includes the Senate Health Bill, HR 3590. Paul Hsieh M.D has written an update on the recent political machinations with links to contact information & summary arguments. Remember, ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Do you live in either Betsy Markey's district (4th, map) or Diana DeGette's district (1st, map)? If so, contact them (see end of post) and tell them to vote "no" on the Senate health "reform" bill or any scaled down version of it. This reform is terrible from both moral ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Tim Phillips at Americans for Prosperity summarizes the situation and has links to quick ways to contact your Senator and Representatives. An excerpt:
President Obama finally made it official yesterday: he wants Congress to ignore Senate rules - and the American people - and use a parliamentary trick called ...
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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, January 24th, 2010
The Daily Camera (Boulder) published a shorter version of my Pajamas Media article from a earlier this month:
With so-called health care "reform" in limbo after the Republican Senate victory in Massachusetts, it's worth examining a popular sentiment behind it: animosity toward insurance companies. Namely, insurers` profits, denial of claims, and ...
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
The Denver Post published my letter to the editor on October 31. (Yes, I just saw it now.)
Re: “The cost of failure on health care for Colorado,” Oct. 28 online-only guest commentary.
Say your neighborhood deli rigged its scales so that customers who paid for a pound of meat left the ...
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Section 211-213 of HB 3962 basically says that insurance companies must offer coverage (guaranteed issue) and charge the same premium (community rating) to everyone regardless of their medical history. The November 8 Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) printed my brief opposition to such political controls:
Should government force you to pay more ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Yes, their grimy hands are already on it, and that's the problem. From Patients First:
While millions of Americans spoke up during the summer against a government takeover of health care, Congress has retreated to its bubble and ignored your concerns. We need to remind them we still oppose a trillion ...
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