Insurance company wrong-doing no rationale for government health plan

Monday, November 30th, 2009

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 ...

Unions vs. your health, wealth, and job mobility

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Who would support a self-serving political agenda at the expense of your health, wealth, and job mobility? AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and Colorado executive director Mike Cerbo. In a recent Denver Post commentary, they perpetuate the big lie behind politician-controlled medicine: "that the free market is not working," and that consequently, ...

The big lie behind politician-controlled medicine

Friday, June 13th, 2008

The Denver Post printed the following letter of mine last week (on-line version): Re: "Who has your health at heart?" May 22 guest commentary. AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo perpetuate the big lie behind politician-controlled medicine: that the free market is not working and that costs have been spiraling out ...

AFL-CIO: Obey My Authority!

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Continuation of my critique of the AFL-CIO commentary here and here. In their Denver Post commentary, AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo say that Hillary and Obama are correct to be skeptical of the idea that the market is the right entity to put in charge. Are they saying that the ...

AFL-CIO on mandated benefits

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Continuation of: Dude, what free market?. In their Denver Post commentary, AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo also address benefits mandates (I assume) when they write that under McCain's health care reform plan: existing regulations would also be eliminated. For example, state laws that mandate coverage for mammograms or hospital stays ...

Dude, what free market?

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

The big lie behind pushing politician-controlled health care is: that the United States has a free-market in health care, and that it's to blame for costs of medical care and insurance being so hight. AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo perpetuate this in a commentary in Thursday's Denver ...