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? Tax Supporters versus the Truth0
- HEALTH CARE - Issue Backgrounder
- July 7, 2004
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 MORECompulsory Evidence-Based Medicine: An Unproven Idea That Shouldn't Be Law0
- HEALTH CARE - Issue Backgrounder
- March 5, 2004
I. What is evidence-based medicine (EBM)?
Proponents like EBM originator David Sackett say evidence-based medicine is simply a tool to further the “conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patient. It means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research.”
READ MOREEvidence-Based Medicine Turns Patients into Pets0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- March 4, 2004
If evidence-based medicine becomes law in Colorado, your dog may have more influence on his medical treatment than you do on yours.
Under language floating around the statehouse, future Colorado law could appoint a small committee to use “evidence-based medicine” to “integrate” the clinical expertise of a “health care provider” with a “covered person’s choice of care” and “efficacious interventions to maximize the quality and quantity of life for individual covered persons.” At least those who decide on a dog’s fate usually know him and treat him as an individual.
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Health Care Reform: Liberate Patients or Oppress Them?0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- August 28, 2003
Though you would never know it from the news reports, the brightest hope for health care reform lies in the consumer directed health care movement.
Pioneering physicians, like Heather Sowell and Jonathan Sheldon at the Sheldon Sowell Center for Health in Englewood, and Vern Cherewatenko of Washington State, have opened practices that protect patients and physicians from the excessive overhead costs imposed by governments and insurance companies. By requiring payment at time of service they can eliminate overhead, charge fees that are 30 to 50 percent lower, and make health care affordable for almost everyone.
READ MOREThe Simple Care Solution0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- August 19, 2003
With prescription drug benefits being debated in Congress, increasing concern in the state legislature over double-digit percentage increases in health care spending and health insurance premiums, and the alarming number of uninsured Americans, one wonders if increasing legislation is really the solution to our health care problems.
READ MORECheap drugs would be a bitter pill0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- July 27, 2003
Have you thought about going up to Canada to pick up your Viagra? It might save you some money. It’s getting more and more popular. Of course there is this little problem: It’s against the law. At least for now.
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Linda Gorman, Director, Health Care Policy Center
Email: Linda@i2i.org
Phone: 303-279-6536, ext 107