CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
December 16, 2009 06:51 PM UTC
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Are you Dick Stacy?
Are any of those scary health care thingies really going to happen? I don’t want a massive new beauracracy. I don’t want the gov’t interfering in the relationship I have w/my doctors. I don’t want to pay more taxes.
Just to be clear Amtrak sucks because we subsidize travel by car and air wayyyy more lavishly. And no one is arguing the Post office should run healthcare.
I have a public option for health insurance- it works pretty well. I use a public option for some health care- it works pretty well. I also have private insurance- it’s pricey but it does what it does.
We have great models for how effective tort reform (primarily in the form of limited plaintiff’s awards for medical malpractice) and cross border competition for health insurance will be. Let’s look at the states that already did it. No measurable impact.
The rest of the stuff is in the bill, dick.
I’m not sure I’d agree with even that. MADCO’s right, it’s not subsidized nearly as thoroughly as car and air, but what’s the guy’s complaint with Amtrak? I’ve taken the train to the Bay Area and Chicago in the last few years and I don’t think there was a single passenger aboard those trains who thought it sucked. And more heavily trafficked routes — up and down the Eastern seaboard, others — swear by their trains.
there isn’t enough service, the stations are dirty, the trains are dirty, there is no wifi,
should I go on?
which is the primary reason for your first two complaints. They don’t own the tracks. Legally they are required to have priority over freight trains, but frequently they don’t. And legally the freight companies are required to maintain the tracks to passenger rail standards, but frequently they don’t.
the ride was smooth, the stations were OK, the train was fine, and the Acela has wifi. It’s not the Orient Express, but I’d be happy if the gubmint handled its duties as well as it does Amtrak.
Even Amtrak admits their service standards are not being met.
Btw- of course they love the trains back east, you can go anywhere anytime, you can bring your bike and sometimes even your car.
I can’t even take the train from here to Albuquerque. (or Trinidad to get the west line to take the kids, bikes and all, to see Uncle Mickey)
I’d be very interested to see the tort reform “models” you refer to as being “effective.”
“…Tort reform. Pure right-wing nonsense. In all of my years managing medical practices, this never was any more of a problem than paying any other practice expense. This is a non-issue. Further, the physicians own the malpractice insurance companies, like COPIC is Colorado and SCPIE in California. I believe we have too few, not too many, malpractice actions, if we have a minimum of 100,000 iatrogenic deaths each year. ..
Mike Kiley, PhD, MPH, FACMPE
President, Colo Alpine Advanced Trauma Care Project, Inc.”
COPIC doctors pay, on average, about $18K per year in malpractice insurance. That’s not insignificant, but it is not the driver of costs that the right wingers like to pretend it is.
rather, that we know almost exactly how effective it is.
In Colorado it didn’t “fix” anything.
Doctors do 2 or 3 times as much testing as they would if they weren’t afraid of getting sued. Patients pressure docs for tests and get them even if they aren’t needed. Docs and insurers spend millions or billions negotiating away nuisance suits. Insurance premiums force docs to demand higher payments from Medicaid, Medicare, private insurers, and the payers have to pay or lose docs who can make money doing other things.
Only malpractice litigators pretend that defensive medicine isn’t a big issue.
this column has little to do with “elitism” beyond the stretch of a headline.
It’d make as much sense to title a rant about Jane Norton’s position on health care reform, “Senate candidate Norton’s batshit insanity.” Come to think of it …
On another note, let’s be clear this appeared only online, not in the actual Denver Post:
Bennet is listening to his contributors and base. He doesn’t seem worried about voters. I guess he assumes health care won’t be an issue come election time.
We’ll find out soon enough.
Sen Bennet’s demanor is anything but elitist. He interacts with people on a person to person level, and I’ve never seen him appear anything but modest.
I agree with Ray.
I have spoken with the Senator on three occasions (once at considerable length), and found him very approachable and modest.
That said, I am concerned with his affiliation to Big Money and Big Politics.