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Paul Hsieh

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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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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Free Speech: Use It or Lose It

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

Recently, independent journalism and blogging have come under attack on multiple fronts.

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Beware Dr. Galbraith’s Snake Oil

Monday, May 31st, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

Even in the face of the Greek situation, some economists continue to argue that deficits don't matter.

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ObamaCare: Insurers Need Permission to Survive; Citizens, to Live

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

Under arbitrarily powerful government, by the grace of Congress go I.

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The Deadly Tax on Medical Innovation

Sunday, April 11th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

ObamaCare could dramatically slow the pace of medical progress, leading to millions of preventable deaths

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The Real ObamaCare Fraud

Friday, March 26th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

The ObamaCare CBO score was based on a fraud. Hidden in ObamaCare is a more pernicious fraud: "bending the cost curve" by covert rationing.

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ObamaCare: The Coming Battles

Monday, March 22nd, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

The first round of the political fight over health care has gone to those who would violate our rights — but the final victory can still be ours.

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ObamaCare vs. the Hippocratic Oath

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

Do we really want a system that would fatally compromise doctors' ability to treat their patients according to their best judgment and ability? (Also read Roger L. Simon: Obama on Fox: It’s Desperation Time)

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Can the Moral ‘Narrative’ of ObamaCare Be Defeated?

Thursday, March 4th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

The government should not rob men to pay their neighbors' medical bills.
Related: "Hopenchange 2010: It’s Come To This."

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Health Care Reform: Republicans, Beware the Trap of ‘Limited’ Reforms

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

The seemingly innocuous "reform" of requiring insurers to cover all pre-existing conditions would gradually lead to a full government takeover of health care.

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Government Grab of Retirement Accounts a Matter of ‘Social Justice’

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

We must reject the notion that one man's "need" gives him an automatic moral claim on another man's wealth.

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Brown’s Victory: The Declaration of Independents

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

What do independents want? In a word, limited government.

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America Doesn’t Need a Health Insurance ‘Czar’

Monday, January 18th, 2010 - by Paul Hsieh

Americans are not serfs. We value our health and our freedom.

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ObamaCare: Tightening the Noose Around Private Health Care

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 - by Paul Hsieh

How far will we let those in Congress tighten it?

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ObamaCare: A National Version of RomneyCare

Monday, November 2nd, 2009 - by Paul Hsieh

Before the country adopts a similar plan, Americans should know three things about the failing Massachusetts system.

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Is Your Doctor Getting Ready to Quit?

Friday, September 18th, 2009 - by Paul Hsieh

A new poll shows that 45 percent of doctors would consider leaving their profession if ObamaCare legislation passes.

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The Free Market Is Not Another Form of Rationing

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 - by Paul Hsieh

The argument, made by some supporters of ObamaCare, is as incorrect as it is appalling.

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The Federal Health Care Muggers

Friday, July 24th, 2009 - by Paul Hsieh

Your money or your life? Socialized health care, quite literally, takes both.

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Health Care Reform vs. Universal Health Care

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 - by Paul Hsieh

Health care is a need, not a right. There is no such thing as a "right" to a house ... or a tonsillectomy.

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Health Insurance Industry Sells Its Soul to the Devil

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 - by Paul Hsieh

Health insurance companies are on the verge of a Faustian bargain that will take the rest of us down with them.

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Ayn Rand and the Tea Party Protests

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 - by Paul Hsieh

Protesters must couple their outrage at bailouts with a positive vision of a properly limited government. (See PJTV's coverage of the Tea Party protests here.)

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Obama’s Regulatory Chief Believes in Paternalistic Government

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 - by Paul Hsieh

Cass Sunstein wrote the book on stealth intrusion into the lives of American citizens.

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