Democratic Senators on Health & Human Services Senate Committee

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 ...

Insurance choice Delaware? - small chance

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 ...

health insurance choice in New Jersey

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 ...

Republicans: Don’t wuss out on health care!

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 ...