The sick among us will never disappear | Pius Kamau
The socialist acolytes of Bernie Sanders often remind me of my Cold War years in Africa, with all their suffering and killings. All I can say is, calling themselves socialists is a misnomer; the U.S. will never compare to the Soviet Socialist Republics. But there’s one thing I wholly agree with them about: Universal health […]
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An update in Colorado Politics last week on Colorado’s maddening Medicaid morass pretty much said it all: The publicly funded health-care program for the poor and disabled could consume the entire state general fund in less than two decades. That alarming news was delivered on Thursday to the Commission on Medicaid, an interim committee set […]
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Proposition 135 on this fall’s ballot would prohibit sex-change surgery on minors. Call it “gender-affirming surgery” if that makes the amputation sound more compassionate. I’ll admit, I struggled with how to vote. Not because I think children should undergo these surgeries, but because I’m suspicious whenever government barges into a family’s decisions. The question is […]
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For more than a decade, Colorado has misused a state law to put words in the mouths of unwilling speakers. Now it wields that same law to put scalpels in the hands of unwilling surgeons. Colorado’s Supreme Court recently ruled that a hospital violated Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act by ceasing to offer puberty blockers and cross-sex […]