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Jared Polis, you’re wrong: Obamacare is a government takeover
Colorado Congressman Jared Polis (D-Boulder) claims that ObamaCare is not “a government takeover of the health care industry.” He’s wrong. The only way he could be correct is that if he acknowledged how much government controlled the industry before ObamaCare. Continue reading
Jared Polis (D-Boulder) wrong about Constitution & mandatory health coverage
Jared Polis argues that mandatory health coverage specified by ObamaCare is a tax, and hence is Constitutional. The problem with this argument is that President Obama himself has argued that the mandate is not a tax. Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution & health care, Jared Polis, ObamaCare lawsuit
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Polis’s suport for new gov’t run health plan: bad policy, bad politics.
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged health care public opinion, Jared Polis, Public Health Plan
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Polis calls for Senate to add “public option” to health care bill
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 … Continue reading
Posted in PPC, single payer
Tagged Jared Polis, politician credibility, single payer
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Jared Polis: what’s your real reason for pushing the “public option”?
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado health care, Jared Polis, politician credibility
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No compulsory charity for Obama Care’s phony reform
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 … Continue reading
Polis vs. Polis on health care
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado health care, Jared Polis
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How many uninsured?
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 … Continue reading
“Universal” Health Care Kills
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, … Continue reading