Tuesday, March 27: Hands Off My Healthcare Rallies in Colorado

by Brian T. Schwartz | 10:24 pm, March 25, 2012

Rallies for the “Supreme Court to uphold Americans’ individual freedom and rule that the ObamaCare individual mandate is unconstitutional.” CO Springs, Denver, Grand Junction, Loveland. Continue reading →

How Peyton Manning could increase your income

by Brian T. Schwartz | 10:20 pm, March 24, 2012

This article originally appeared in the print edition of the The Boulder Daily Camera on Saturday, March 24, 2012. The Broncos’ quest for world championships now “starts with Peyton,” says executive VP John Elway.  If you don’t follow the Broncos, should … Continue reading →

Concealed carry allowed at Colorado’s public universities

by Brian T. Schwartz | 10:14 pm, March 15, 2012

A version of this article was printed in the Boulder Daily Camera on Saturday, March 10, 2012. It’s in response to the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision that CU regents cannot prevent conceal-carry permit holders from being armed on campus. The … Continue reading →

Obamacare Medicaid mandates are unconstitutional

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, March 15, 2012

ObamaCare’s Medicaid mandates are, if anything, even more constitutionally dubious than the individual mandate. The Independence Institute has taken the unusual step of filing a brief urging the court to overturn them. Continue reading →

End birth-control coverage battle: Allow us to buy it without a prescription

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, March 14, 2012

Former Reason magazine editor Virginia Postrel argues that people should be able to buy birth control as they do condoms: Without a prescription. This would diffuse the controversy on government’s mandate that health plans cover birth control. Continue reading →

Colorado Consumer Health Initiative takes power from patients, hands it to politically-controlled health plans

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, February 29, 2012

Erik Lessing’s excellent letter to the editor in the Denver Post in response the Colorado “Consumer” Health Initiative’s pro-ObamaCare op-ed. Continue reading →

Jared Polis, you’re wrong: Obamacare is a government takeover

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, February 28, 2012

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 →

Colorado HB 12-1242 would compromise patients’ medical privacy

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, February 27, 2012

By requiring people to choose between health care and personal privacy, Colorado’s All-Payer Health Claims Database and the proposed HB 12-1242 are both unacceptable infringements of individual rights. Read more in the CO Springs Gazette. Continue reading →

Economic indicators that best correlate with presidential election results

by Brian T. Schwartz | 10:13 pm, February 25, 2012

This was printed in the Boulder Daily Camera on February 25, 2012. Which economic indicators best correlate with presidential election results?  Last year New York Times statistician Nate Silver presented an elegant answer to this question.  For the sixteen presidential … Continue reading →

Jared Polis (D-Boulder) wrong about Constitution & mandatory health coverage

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, February 20, 2012

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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