Guest Commentary published in The Pueblo Chieftain
By Sen. Josh Penry
Letters and Op/Eds
Tax hikes will not fix budget crisis
Guest Commentary published in the Coloradoan
By Sen. Kevin Lundberg
2010 Colorado legislature: Republicans will fight higher taxes and fees
Guest Commentary published in The Denver Post
By Sen. Greg Brophy and Rep. Amy Stephens
Republicans want year of 'do no harm'
Guest Commentary published in The Pueblo Chieftain
By Sen. Josh Penry
Securing PERA a priority
Guest Commentary published in The Denver Post
By Sen. Brandon Shaffer and Sen. Josh Penry
Citizens should get to vote on taxes
Guest Commentary published in the Coloradoan
By Sen. Kevin Lundberg
Thanks, D.C., but Colorado can manage its own water
Guest Commentary published in The Denver Post
By Sen. Ken Kester
Pinnacol probe just a money grab
Guest Commentary published in the Denver Post
By State Sen. Mike Kopp
Few entities either in government or the private sector have been scrutinized as closely as Colorado's Pinnacol Assurance — the state's largest insurer for injured workers — and none has emerged with a cleaner bill of health. Required by law to undergo numerous regular audits, Pinnacol routinely passes with flying colors.
Don’t confuse Obama care with our homegrown health care reform
Published in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
President Barack Obama’s plan to push American health care down the path toward socialized medicine is in the equivalent of political free fall. According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, a majority of Americans now disapprove of President Obama’s health care plan, and around 75 percent of those polled flatly reject assurances from the White House that Obama care will be “deficit neutral.” It is against this backdrop that the president will arrive in Grand Junction Saturday to pitch his health plan.
Don't confuse Obama-care with our home-grown reform
Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette
by Josh Penry
President Barack Obama’s plan to push American health care down the path toward socialized medicine is in the equivalent of political free fall. According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, a majority of Americans now disapprove of Obama’s health care plan, and around 75 percent of those polled flatly reject assurances from the White House that Obama-care will be “deficit neutral.” It is against this backdrop that the president will arrive in my hometown of Grand Junction to pitch his health plan.
To casual observers, the president’s choice of Grand Junction as a venue for his next campaign event may seem a bit peculiar. Residents of bright-red Mesa County, after all, chose John McCain over Obama by a large margin in the last election.
So why Grand Junction? Because Grand Junction has one of the most cost-effective and high-quality health care systems in the country. So effective, in fact, that it was recently featured in The New Yorker (along with the Mayo Clinic) as an example of health care reform that works.