The Health Care Policy Center’s focus is on public policy that safeguards consumers’ ability to determine their own choices about their own health care and the care of their families. HCPC fights the expansion of government directed health care that infringes upon individual choice. Director Linda Gorman has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading experts in free market health care issues.
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Evaluating Health Care Reform Proposals: A Primer0
- Issue Papers, Publications
- April 30, 2020
No one knows how much the people of the United States should spend on health care. When medical innovation improves treatments that relieve suffering and prolong life, people naturally spend more on health care. People also spend more on health care as they become wealthier. When American household incomes rise, people spend more on health
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For health policy that works, look at the evidence0
- 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 Bill0
- 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 Colorado0
- 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.
READ MOREObama is gone, but his fiscal waste is still befouling American health care0
- HEALTH CARE, Op-Eds, THE HILL
- April 3, 2018
For real health care waste, it is hard to beat the Obama administration. Crony capitalists, academic institutions, select nonprofits, and state bureaucracies are raking in enormous sums. Ordinary Americans are paying the price. If government officials cannot find the courage to return control of health care to patients and their doctors, American health care quality
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Senate Bill 18-023: The Free Speech in Medicine Act0
- HEALTH CARE, Issue Backgrounder
- February 12, 2018
IB-A-2018 (February 2018) Author: Linda Gorman DOWNLOAD REPORT IN PDF Executive Summary: The question is whether prohibiting the dissemination of truthful medical information about off-label use of prescription drugs does more good than harm.
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Linda Gorman, Director, Health Care Policy Center
Email: Linda@i2i.org
Phone: 303-279-6536, ext 107