Linda Gorman, Author at Independence Institute

Listen! Constitution Posts in Audio Format, read by Rob Natelson 0
- Constitution
- February 21, 2024
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Notice to Readers from Rob Natelson 0
- Constitution, CONSTITUTION - Supreme Court
- February 10, 2022
Salon.com issued a defamatory article it has refused to correct.
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The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning in Colorado 0
- EDUCATION - Issue Papers, EDUCATION - Online Education
- July 17, 2013
Online tools combined with face-to-face instruction create what is known as blended learning. Effective integration of technology can allow more efficient use of instructional time and save schools money. Colorado is well positioned to implement and test blended learning programs on a larger scale. Charter and district public schools have begun to implement blended learning models and have seen promising results.
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Amendment B Repeals Property Owners’ Constitutional Tax Protections 0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Issue Backgrounders
- October 5, 2020
Colorado has 4,518 active local governments that collect property taxes. Every single one of them wants more money. So do the interest groups that get money from those governments. Passing Amendment B will help them get it.
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For health policy that works, look at the evidence 0
- Health Care, HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds, The Hill
- May 30, 2018
When a policy generating a lot of fame and fortune starts to go wrong, the temptation to ignore new data can be irresistible. For over 50 years, mainstream U.S. health policy makers have promoted research supporting Kenneth Arrow’s 1963 assertion that “it is the general social consensus, clearly, that the laissez-faire solution for medicine is
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HB18-1358: The Health Care Price Transparency Bill 0
- Health Care, HEALTH CARE - Issue Backgrounder
- May 7, 2018
IB-B-2018 (May 2018) Author: Linda Gorman DOWNLOAD REPORT IN PDF Executive Summary: Americans pay for their health care in a variety of ways. People paying cash for services pay posted prices or prices individually negotiated with providers. Those who pay individual health plan premiums pay network providers the amount their insurer has negotiated, covering deductibles
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Proposed health transparency bills bad medicine for Colorado 0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- May 1, 2018
Maybe Colorado legislators can explain how the heavy cost of their transparency bills will improve Obamacare insurance rules, Medicare pricing, the FDA review process, and the Hatch-Waxman Act corruption of normal patent law.
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