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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Pick Your Poison with Big Government Health Care0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- February 16, 2008
ust as local experts were revealing their plans to “fix” what ails Colorado, a heavy-handed health care overhaul crashed on the rocks in California and Democrat presidential candidates clashed over the appropriate size of government’s health care hammer.
READ MOREMinority Report0
- HEALTH CARE - Issue Papers
- January 26, 2008
This document offers an alternative to the recommendations approved by the Colorado Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform (the 208 Commission or Commission) at its meeting on November 19, 2007. Its authors are among the Commissioners who voted against that set of recommendations. On November 7, 2007, the Commission passed a rule requiring any commissioner who wished to submit a minority report to vote against the entire package of recommendations. Although the authors voted against the entire package, they do agree with some of the recommendations contained in the set.
READ MOREHealth care "reform" in Colorado: Go home and die; it's cheaper.0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- December 3, 2007
On September 8, 2006, the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) told patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer to go home and die. Some Colorado health reformers want to be able to say the same thing. They want a Scottish Medicines Consortium for Colorado, yet another group of “stakeholders” empowered to give “patient-centered” advice that tells people what to while denying health care to all in the name of controlling costs.
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Ritter's health care cure would prove more crippling to Coloradans0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- November 21, 2007
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter does not want does not want health care reforms that “throw more money at a problem without addressing the root causes of the crisis.” Unfortunately, the state’s 208 Commission does exactly that.
READ MORECheap medicine proves costly in patients’ lives0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- September 17, 2007
Because it is cheaper to let people die than to treat them, an obvious conflict of interest occurs when a single organization has the absolute power to both pay for health care and define it. Monopoly providers like the Canadian provincial health plans, the National Health Service, Medicare, and certain HMOs routinely use cheap medicine in order to save money. Their cost cutting strategies often emphasize older, less effective, pharmaceuticals, longer waits for care, dated equipment, and less training for personnel. Cheap medicine can cut costs, but it generally does so by delaying diagnosis, slowing recoveries, increasing morbidity, and hastening mortality.
READ MORESCHIP: Why Pay When You Can Get It For Free?0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- September 9, 2007
People supporting substantial expansions in government health entitlement programs like SCHIP, Medicaid, and state run insurance pools should be interested in some new results on crowd-out, the term used to describe the fact that expansions in government health programs encourage people to stop paying their own way.
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Linda Gorman, Director, Health Care Policy Center
Email: Linda@i2i.org
Phone: 303-279-6536, ext 107