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Paul Hsieh, MD, is a member of the Colorado chapter of Docs4PatientCare (www.Docs4PatientCare.org) and co-founder of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine (www.WeStandFIRM.org).
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SOPA, Guns, and Freedom

Thursday, January 19th, 2012 - by Paul Hsieh

You do not protect honest online content producers from pirates by breaking the internet for the innocent.

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The Truth About RomneyCare

Saturday, January 7th, 2012 - by Paul Hsieh

Despite the candidate's denials, his program had numerous price controls.

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Would a President Gingrich Ban the Birth Control Pill?

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

Newt's connection to the "personhood" movement might be problematic for his candidacy. Related: Michael Totten has a foreign policy-related challenge to Newt.

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Screening for Terrorists vs. Screening for Cancer

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

As the holiday travel season approaches, millions of American air passengers will become painfully reacquainted with the TSA and its unpopular, invasive procedures.

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In Praise of Capitalist Inequality

Sunday, November 6th, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

As both Ayn Rand and Steve Jobs would remind them, the economic inequality that the OWS protestors oppose is not something to be condemned, but to be celebrated.

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Let’s Model ObamaJobs After ObamaCare!

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

What could go wrong?

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How ObamaCare Plays Games with Your Life

Thursday, September 1st, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

"Accountable care organizations" push doctors to take on only the healthiest patients.

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Don’t Shoot the Downgrade Messenger

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

Attacking S&P for the U.S. credit downgrade is like criticizing your doctor for diagnosing your cancer.

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The Coming Collectivization of American Health Care

Monday, July 11th, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

Collectivizing American doctors will fail as badly as collectivizing Soviet farmers.

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Why the ‘Unexpected’ Keeps Happening

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

Why do so many journalists describe Obama's foreseeable economic failures as “unexpected”?

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Dude, Where’s My Freedom?

Saturday, June 11th, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

The government tightens the noose on guns, health, travel, and more.

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Massachusetts: The Canary in the Coal Mine for ObamaCare

Thursday, May 12th, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

The ongoing failure of the “universal health care” plan in Massachusetts serves as a clear warning to the rest of America.

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We Call It ‘Rationing,’ Obama Calls It ‘Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board’

Friday, April 22nd, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

We shouldn't let either Obama's IPAB or Congress control our health care.

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The Homer Simpson Approach to Social Security

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

The Social Security trust fund is fictional, nothing more than a collection of IOUs from the government to itself.

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The Wisconsin Protests and the New Medical Ethics

Monday, February 21st, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

The breaches of professional ethics displayed in Wisconsin may be an ominous foretaste of future problems Americans can expect under ObamaCare.

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America’s Other Drug Problem

Saturday, February 5th, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

The government's set to worsen our shortage of life-saving medications.

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Will the GOP Walk the Walk on the Constitution?

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 - by Paul Hsieh

First read it -- then defend it.

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Beware Counterfeit ‘Responsibility’

Friday, December 17th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

The White House's "individual responsibility" rhetoric masks its drive to subvert individual freedom.

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GOP: Dance With The One Who Brung You

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

Celebrate Tuesday's election results, but don't forget who put you in office and why — namely, the independent-minded Tea Party voters.

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2010: Dawn of the Terran Empire?

Friday, October 1st, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

Like Kirk and Spock, I fear we may have passed through to a parallel (political) universe.

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Get Ready for Your Health Care ‘Re-Education’

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

Kathleen Sebelius' chilling, Orwellian order that insurers not blame ObamaCare for rising rates was just the start. We must stop the re-education in November.

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Avastin and Your Life

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

The recent controversy over the cancer drug Avastin highlights the dangers inherent in government-run health care that can only be avoided by repealing ObamaCare.

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Transparency for Me, but not for Thee

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

Americans must demand government transparency as a corollary to the broader principle that a properly limited government should be our servant, not our master—as the Founders intended.

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Donald Berwick, the Pro-Gun Control Lobby, and Paternalism

Friday, July 23rd, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

Berwick and gun control advocates share a flawed view of human nature and a disdain for the rationality of ordinary men. Thus, their paternalistic desire to restrict our freedoms.

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Should You Be Allowed to Know What’s in Your DNA?

Thursday, July 15th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

"You can't handle the truth!" That's the federal government's latest message to Americans seeking to learn the content of their own DNA.

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