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February 23, 2011 09:31 PM UTC
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The argument Rep. Joshi is making is very sound and consistent with the arguments against many other fee hikes passed by Democrats. They are all reliant on the absurd ruling by the liberal Supreme Court saying fee hikes are not “taxes.”
Remove that fiction, and many of the Democrat hikes in the last few years are illegal.
That’s the fact. Now, back to smearing Janak Joshi!
already decided that there’s really no such thing as money; that it’s merely another matter-state of free speech incarnate? While you’re removing fictions . . . why not start with the classics?
(Just like you GOPers . . . always trying to limit the collection of some free speech.)
Now can we return to the utter stupidity of Joshi’s bill?
Sorry, but the federal SCOTUS has not weighed in on Mary Mullarkey’s mularkey.
facts are not character assasination when they concern birth certificates, death panels and the like.
Fees are paid by people who actually use the services.
Taxes are paid by everybody.
You trying to get something for nothing? Freeload off the rest of us?
What are you, some kind of socialist?
You may think so, but it’s the law. That’s the way our system works. And so every time the Republicans argue that a fee is a tax they are FACTUALLY WRONG!
what are you going to believe the facts as defined by the law or your own lying heart?
I think the R’s are quite effective at never letting facts get in the way of a good political talking point.
That the voters of this state retained the three justices who were up and and voted that fees were not taxes. Sorry, ArapGOP, as usual, you are on the wrong side of the people. We think that a fee is not a tax. If you wanted a fee to be included in TABOR, you should have talked to Douglas Bruce 20 years ago when he was putting this thing together.
Since when is it a character assassination to factually describe someone’s bio?
Clinton had sex with an intern.
Not a character assasination.
Reagan raised taxes.
Reagan/Bush conducted illegal arms deals with Iran.
Carter was a one-termer.
if it’s just the plain facts. One can only imagine what your take would be if this guy a had a D in from front of his name and was pushing pro-pot legalization legislation, Arap.
Obviously, the real problem here is the gubmint coming between people who want to be seen by quacks, and Dr. Nick.
“Hi, everybody!”
4 fux sake Joshi’s own incompetence likely killed someone! WTF kind of apologist R U?
It isn’t just rumor or innuendo and it wasn’t just malpractice — it was death.
Only the willfully ignorant would believe the state boards take licensing so lightly. R U really that ignorant A?
Sometimes mistakes happen. Doctors are human too. Some outstanding doctors have accidentally and unintentionally killed people. Your comment is just stupid. The licensing board didn’t revoke his license because he killed someone. Indeed, they allowed him to continue to practice if he got additional training. It’s not at all unusual for an older doctor to simply acquiese in the removal of his license under these types of circumstances. Don’t know whether this guy is old, but to relinquish a license isn’t unusual if they are old. I know, my father (at age 78) relinquished his license due to a dispute over Medicaid billing.
weighing in while knowing nothing about Joshi but drawing wide ranging conclusions (“yo, he might have been old”), let’s go with some facts, shall we?
He wasn’t old. He was 55 at the time. He was cited for failing to properly evaluate, adequately treat and failure to provide adequate documentation of the patient and his treatment.
His license was suspended after he failed to take retraining in nephrology in 2007. In 2008, he was forced by the state medical board to surrender his medical license permanently.
You really want to stick up for this guy? Knock yourself out. Me? I’ll go with the facts.
“Some outstanding doctors have accidentally and unintentionally killed people.”
But Janak Joshi is obviously not one of them.
And since Joshi is the topic at hand, I don’t see why anyone would bother trying to spin an excuse for him.
His bill to relieve Coloradoans of the $.07 fee to help low-income people have basic phone service just died in committee.
Darn it, I had already planed on how I was going to spend the $.84 I could save….
But that’s $0.84 per year. It adds up.
I have two Doctors in my family – no one is perfect, but people give their best
Dr Joshi is a wonderful person and close friend – he has confronted the mistakes committed, and I very much take him at his honest word, when he speaks to his resolution of the problems
“Dr.” Joshi?
Joshi is no longer a doctor.
Defend him if you must. But don’t call him something he isn’t.
Confronting the mistakes means going through the process to retain his license. He ran away.
Or he’s just conceding that he doesn’t have what it takes to be a good doctor, or simply doesn’t want to be a doctor anymore (i.e., mid-life crisis).
Dr Joshi has been active for a long time in politics and there were a lot of people in Colorado Springs begging him to run – there’s a reason the attacks against him didn’t stick – people in that district love the guy