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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In just 90 seconds this new health reform video highlights the upside-down priorities of Oregon's Medicaid system. Lobbying groups have used the political process to push coverage for special-interest causes. This video is based on research Linda Gorman, Director of the Health Policy Center at the the Independence Institute. Read ...
In response to the question: "As Congress debates health care reform, tell us what -- if anything -- you think should be changed about the U.S. health care system?"
Having a health care "system" is itself the problem. It implies that politicians dictate your medical choices, at your expense, regardless of ...
This video by the Independence Institute shows one downside we can expect from a nation-wide mandate that we all buy insurance -- as politicians define it.
For more on why and how the "Massachusetts Model" would drive up costs and lead to political rationing of medical care, see here.
"The 'public plan' will be the only plan" says health care economist Scott Harrington of the proposed government-run health plan. Be suspicious: "public plan" supporters want it to be the only plan.
President Obama uses rhetoric of "choice" and "competition" to push the "public plan." But he has declared his ...
