Paul Hsieh, M.D. explains in the Daily Camera (Boulder). Here are the opening paragraphs:
Boulder`s Congressman Jared Polis recently made national headlines when he and fellow first-term Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) teamed up to petition the U.S. Senate to include the so-called "public option" in its next version of health care ...
Polis calls for Senate to add public option to health care bill, reports the Daily Camera (Boulder). As Paul Hsieh, MD has noted:
In the Dec. 10 [2008] Wall Street Journal, Polis wrote: "Our United States Congress... now finds itself poring over 'business plans' submitted this week by Ford, GM and ...
Representative Jared Polis says the proposed government-run "public insurance option" is about trust. Some "trust an insurance company over the government and others who trust the government over insurance companies." If so, then why doesn't Polis support a similar choice when it comes to Medicaid and Medicare?
For example, how about ...
The Democrats' proposals would "reform" nothing. Instead, they would entrench problems with the status quo, as economist Arnold Kling explains in "The Non-Debate over Non-Reform."
Consider the country's total health care spending. Patients' out-of-pocket spending accounts for only about 10 percent. Insurers and government split the remaining 90 percent almost evenly. ...
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Dr. Paul Hsieh of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine had an excellent op-ed in the (Boulder) Daily Camera yesterday. He calls out Colorado Congressman-elect Jared Polis's inconsistent view on the role of government and markets, and eloquently shows why health care is not a ...
It's become a mantra that there are "47 million uninsured" Americans, a figure people use to back compulsory "universal" health insurance of some kind. Google found about fifty pages with the phrase on the Denver Post website alone. Democrat Jared Polis has mentioned 45 million, while Democrat Will Shafroth 50 million. Sure, 47 million ...
What good is having medical insurance if you cannot get medical care? Peddlers of "universal health care" -- from Hillary, Obama, to Colorado congressional candidate Jared Polis -- don't get this.
"Universal health care" is false advertising for politically-controlled medicine, with government as the "single-payer" monopolistic insurer. But having coverage does ...
