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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Proposed Health Care Slush Fund Violates The Public Trust0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- May 8, 2002
With new tax money in short supply, the legislature has a duty to prune state government. As legions of Colorado business executives can tell you, this is a nasty, unpleasant duty that is absolutely essential to an enterprises long-term survival. Unfortunately, it is a duty that some legislators seem determined to avoid.
READ MOREMedicaid Drug Formularies0
- HEALTH CARE - Issue Papers
- April 21, 2002
Medicaid spending is projected to exceed $276 billion in 2003. It will be larger than Medicare. Some experts predict that without significant reform it will bankrupt the states by 2020.
READ MOREDo We Need Warning Labels For Lies In The Library?0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- April 17, 2002
In September 2000, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf handed professional librarians a knotty problem. It published Arming America, a book in which Emory University professor Michael Bellesiles outlined research supposedly showing that guns were rare in America from the Colonial period to the Civil War. The book was awarded Columbia Universitys Bancroft Prize in history in April 2001, and immediately appeared in library collections around the country.
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Why Pay More? Simple Insurance Reform Would Save Coloradans Millions0
- HEALTH CARE - Issue Papers
- April 1, 2002
With simple changes to Colorado’s archaic health insurance regulations, state legislators could save an average family of four almost half a million dollars in health care costs.
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Health insurance policies with higher deductibles offer people the chance to combine relatively inexpensive higher deductible health insurance policies with federally authorized medical savings accounts that would be accepted by preferred provider organizations (MSA PPOs).The Perils of Publicly-Subsidized Private Piggy Banks0
- Energy, ENERGY - Legal, HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- December 26, 2001
Three separate incidents in the last month have shown that some people have no qualms about using other peoples businesses as their own private piggy banks.
In Denver, officials think that some families of four with an income of $51,000 deserve subsidized housing. Rather than build subsidized housing with general tax revenues, they plan to tax new homeowners by requiring that developers either include affordable units in their projects or pay a $150,000 fee for every housing unit built.[1]
READ MOREHealth Care For The Mentally Ill0
- HEALTH CARE - Issue Backgrounder
- September 13, 2001
Transcript of a speech delivered by Linda Gorman at Putting Patients First, a health care symposium held Aug. 29th, 2001 in Evergreen, Colorado and sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Center for Health Care Policy, an affiliate of the Independence Institute.
Im here to tell you, since were quoting P.J. ORourke right now, he said that Giving more money to government was like giving teenage boys whiskey and car keys. And even though you work as hard as you can to make government programs work, there are certain reasons why they will not work no matter how you work, so were going to get a little lesson this morning in public choice economics.
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Linda Gorman, Director, Health Care Policy Center
Email: Linda@i2i.org
Phone: 303-279-6536, ext 107