Author: Kevin Lundberg
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Maybe the unaffiliated wild card won’t turn out to be so wild after all
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In primary voting that concludes today, for the first time in history, Colorado’s 1.2 million unaffiliated voters can cast a ballot in a Republican or Democrat primary. Ballots were mailed to all voters, affiliated and unaffiliated alike, on June 4. Those 1.2 million “active unaffiliated voters” received both Republican and Democrat ballots, and they could…
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New law could revolutionize how health care costs are handled — if providers heed it
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Last year I sponsored Senate Bill 17-065, which the governor signed into law in April. It requires hospitals, doctors offices and other medical clinics to publicly post their most common charges for medical services. It is not intended to be a burdensome requirement, as there is a limited number of services to be listed. The…
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Unanswered questions about Hickenlooper’s ‘bipartisan’ Obamacare ‘fix’
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In his Aug. 31 news conference at the State Capitol, and again the following week in testimony before a committee of the U.S. Senate, Gov. Hickenlooper unveiled a “bipartisan plan” for improving the disastrous health care reform system dumped on the nation by very partisan Democrats in 2010. Yet, the “pragmatic proposals” put forward by…
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Lundberg: Disenfranchised? Are you serious?
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Two proposed November ballot initiatives funded by deep pockets in the Denver business sector are making troublesome claims about Colorado having “1.3 million disenfranchised voters.” If true, this is a national civil rights scandal! Who are these alleged victims of discrimination? They are Colorado’s unaffiliated registered voters, the 34 percent of active registered voters who…
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Lundberg: Hot Sheet missed the point on civil unions bill
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The Statesman’s June 9th “Hot Sheet” completely missed the point of Senate Bill 150. The article leads one to think the bill automatically turned all civil unions in Colorado into marriages. It also makes it sound like the Legislature has accepted the Supreme Court’s ruling that completely redefined the meaning of marriage. Nothing could be…
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Colorado’s rule-making bureaucracy needs more than a timeout
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When John Hickenlooper was inaugurated as Governor in of Colorado, I was encouraged by the focused attention he gave to controlling the costs and intrusiveness of regulations on the businesses and people of Colorado. Despite our political differences in other areas, I thought we had a common understanding and common interest in reducing the heavy…
