Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
According to Jeremy Pelzer at PolitickerCO, the Democrats have named committee chairs and members of their Senate Committees:
Health and Human Services: Chair Betty Boyd (D-Lakewood)*, Vice Chair Lois Tochtrop, John Morse (D-Colorado Springs), Morgan Carroll (D-Aurora), Linda Newell
I've written about Morgan Carroll's price-control legislation before, as well as John Morse's ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Colorado politicians who want to make insurance more affordable should check out this press release from the Delaware gubentorial campaign of of Bill Lee and Charlie Copeland:
At the core of the Lee-Copeland health care plan is a provision allowing anyone in Delaware who purchases health care to purchase a plan from any ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
New Jersey Republican Jay Webber is proposing legislation similar to Cory Gardner's HB 08-1327, which would alllow customers to buy insurance that meets the regulations of other states. From the Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Webber's proposal is a state version of Arizona Congressman John Shadegg's federal legislation to let individuals buy insurance ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Here's my take on Republicans: they give lip service to individual rights, freedom, and free-markets, but when it comes to legislation, it's Socialism-lite. Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek said as much in his 1960 essay "Why I am not a Conservative" :
...the decisive objection to any conservatism which deserves ...
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