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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What Have They Been Smoking?0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- October 11, 2004
Background: Amendment 35 would raise the state tax on cigarettes and tobacco products. The money would be redirected to groups working to expand enrollment in Medicaid and CHP, to anti-tobacco programs, and to community health centers.
READ MOREWhat Have They Been Smoking0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- October 11, 2004
Background: Amendment 35 would raise the state tax on cigarettes and tobacco products. The money would be redirected to groups working to expand enrollment in Medicaid and CHP, to anti-tobacco programs, and to community health centers. The statements in bold are from the Citizens for a Healthier Colorado Amendment 35 backgrounder, published in September 2004
READ MORETobacco Tax Follies0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- September 29, 2004
Amendment 35 imposes a 320 percent increase in state taxes on a pack of cigarettes. In what should be a clear warning to anyone who cares about good government, it simultaneously zaps TABOR restrictions and prohibits the legislature from overseeing how the money is spent.
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Tobacco Tax Follies0
- HEALTH CARE - Updates
- September 29, 2004
Amendment 35 imposes a 320 percent increase in state taxes on a pack of cigarettes. In what should be a clear warning to anyone who cares about good government, it simultaneously zaps TABOR restrictions and prohibits the legislature from overseeing how the money is spent. nbsp; Along with gutting legislative oversight, the Amendment guarantees that
READ MOREAmendment 35 Taxing Tobacco Users to Fund Special Interests0
- HEALTH CARE - Issue Papers
- September 6, 2004
Proponents of the Tobacco Tax initiative claim that increasing taxes on tobacco products will improve health care for children, help smokers by making them quit, and help taxpayers by making smokers pay for the extra health care that their habit makes them consume. These claims are grossly misleading. At bottom, Amendment 35 is a reverse Robin Hood, an attempt to take money from the relatively poor for the benefit of the relatively rich who populate a handful of special interest groups. The Amendment frees spending by these groups from both TABOR and normal legislative oversight, requires that spending levels increase in a fashion reminiscent of Amendment 23, and gives them eternal control of the new tax revenues.
READ MORESchool of Jocks0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- July 28, 2004
I was nine years old the first time I heard of the University of Colorado. That year, CU was the best collegiate football team in the country, and thats all that was important.
Fourteen years later on the other side of the country, the citizens of Raleigh are breathing a sigh of reliefMike Krzyzewski is going to be on the sidelines for Duke next year after all. This means that Duke can remain as one of the best collegiate basketball programs in the country, which is important.
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Linda Gorman, Director, Health Care Policy Center
Email: Linda@i2i.org
Phone: 303-279-6536, ext 107