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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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Utah’s voluntary health insurance exchange 0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- July 13, 2010
From the Texas Policy Foundation:
State governments will face many new challenges and responsibilities under the recently passed federal health care legislation – one of the first being the creation of a state health insurance exchange. Massachusetts‘ state-subsidized exchange was the model for President Obama’s plan, and the Bay State is now grappling with surging premiums […]
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Ten Small-Scale Reforms For Pre-existing (Chronic) Conditions 0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- July 12, 2010
Instead of more political meddling in insurance markets like guaranteed issue and community rating, the following free-market-oriented reforms would help alleviate the problems with pre-existing conditions. From John Goodman at the Health Affairs Blog:

Encourage Portable Insurance.
Allow Special Health Savings Accounts for the Chronically Ill.
Allow Special Needs Health Insurance.
Allow Health Status Insurance.
Allow Self-Insurance for Changes […]
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ObamaCare’s high-risk pools may deny coverage 0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- July 9, 2010
This week the Denver Business Journal and the Denver Post reported on Colorado’s new federally subsidizes high-risk pools (”GettingUSCovered”). But there’s a good reason to be concerned about quality and access. The Hill reports:
The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law [HR […]
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Obama appoints Donald Berwick: Health Care Rationer-in-Chief 0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- July 8, 2010
From Grace-Marie Turner at National Review (July 7):

President Obama is making a huge end-run around the American people with his recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick.
“This recess appointment is an insult to the American people,” said Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.), a physician and leading Berwick opponent. “Dr. Berwick is a […]
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Kagan: Constitution may authorize feds to mandate what you eat 0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- July 7, 2010
From Michael Tanner at Cato:

Suppose that the federal government, in its infinite wisdom, decided that it would deal with the obesity crisis and improve the health and welfare of the American people — by mandating that every American eat three helpings of vegetables and three helpings of fruit every day. Anyone […]
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Right to Health Care Choice Initiative: what will it do?0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- July 6, 2010
In a recent iVoices podcast Jon Caldara discusses an important issue in Colorado politics this year, the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative:

We hear the questions everyday from folks who want to help us collect signatures or who support what we’re doing: what exactly will this initiative do? How in the […]
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Linda Gorman, Director, Health Care Policy Center
Email: Linda@i2i.org
Phone: 303-279-6536, ext 107

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