Health Care Policy Center

How flawed government health coverage incentives lead to poor quality care 0
- Health Care, HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- February 10, 2017
by Linda Gorman Data from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) and the Colorado Hospital Association show that government health programs are not paying their way. Colorado’s Medicaid program pays 75 percent of its patients’ hospital costs. Medicare pays just 72 percent. People who pay for their own health care pay 158
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Amendment 69 “ColoradoCare” Resources 0
- Health Care
- October 14, 2016
Amendment 69 aka ColoradoCare Resources Issue Backgrounder (PDF) and 7-point fact sheet by economist and Health Care Policy Center director Linda Gorman Blog note: Will passing Amendment 69 lead to a doctor strike? by Linda Gorman. Op-ed: Amendment 69 and ColoradoCare: If you like your doctor, you may not get to keep
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Amendment 69: ColoradoCare mimics existing single-payer disasters 0
- Health Care, HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- October 14, 2016
by Sally C. Pipes The good people of Colorado must be smoking something these days. That’s the only explanation for the decision by 156,000 of the state’s more than 3 million registered voters to endorse a November ballot initiative that would create a statewide single-payer health care system. Patients in single-payer systems elsewhere must withstand
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Amendment 69: Colorado can learn from Vermont’s failed experiment with single payer health care 0
- Health Care, HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- October 14, 2016
by John McClaughry In November Colorado voters will decide the fate of Amendment 69. It proposes to create ColoradoCare, a bureaucracy to control all health care in the state. It would initially be funded by a 10 percent tax increase on all forms of income. Coloradans trying to decide how to vote on Amendment 69
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