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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Medicare: More Waste, Less Care0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- February 7, 2009
If “Medicare for all” gives you that intoxicating “government as nurturing parent” feeling, think again. The Camera reported that “thousands of patients” … “will have to find new doctors” because Boulder Community Internal Medicine is closing — in part because of the “low reimbursement rates of its Medicare patients.”
READ MOREWhy Kids Count Can’t Count0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- January 19, 2009
The Colorado Children’s Campaign says Colorado’s children are in trouble. In its 2008 KidsCount in Colorado! report, the Campaign claims that “poverty is the biggest obstacle to opportunity for children, and between 2000-2006, the number of children living in poverty in Colorado increased by 73 percent—the highest increase by far of any state in the nation.”
READ MOREWhy Kids Count Cant Count0
- HEALTH CARE - Publications
- January 19, 2009
So how does it get a 73 percent increase? By serving up artificially low 2000 numbers.
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Liberty is Best Prescription for Health Care0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- January 5, 2009
At the recent Colorado Health Care Summit, Barack Obama’s Cabinet pick Tom Daschle said his boss’s “commitment to changing the health-care system remains strong and focused.” But in the wrong direction.
READ MOREHow to Provide Health Insurance for All0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- December 4, 2008
Providing health insurance for everyone who wants it doesn’t have to come with a high price tag. It doesn’t have to come with increased government control of your medical decisions, or less personal choice when it comes to choosing physicians or deciding on medical treatments, either.
READ MOREThe Dirt on Restaurant Inspections: Health Department Gets Failing Grade0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- September 4, 2008
The El Paso County Health Department says it can’t perform all required inspections of retail food establishments, public pools, and tattoo parlors. There is a solution that doesn’t require increasing taxes or added bureaucracy.
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Linda Gorman, Director, Health Care Policy Center
Email: Linda@i2i.org
Phone: 303-279-6536, ext 107