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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Paying Twice for Government Health Care0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- August 30, 2001
The special legislative session scheduled for September 20th vividly illustrates the disordered priorities that have resulted from the politicization of health care. According to a July press release from the governor’s office, Governor Owens wants to divert $1.6 million from the Tobacco Settlement Fund’s Cessation and Research Programs to “help optimize services to approximately 50 women diagnosed each year through the early detection program who currently may have to wait for potential life-saving treatment.” In the political calculus, breast cancer victims deserve tax-funded treatment. No word about treating the low-income men and women dying from other kinds of disease.
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The 2001-2002 Appropriations Report from the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee shows that the state’s operating budget is $13,030,000,000, roughly $4,300,000,000 of which is already slated for human services and health care spending. In 2000, Colorado’s population was 4,301,261. This means that every year every man, woman, and child in the state already writes a check for $1,000 to pay for helping those the state considers unable to help themselves.Treatment Denied: Colorado Health Care "Reform" and the Mentally Ill0
- HEALTH CARE - Issue Papers, HEALTH CARE - Publications
- April 1, 2001
Colorado health care “reformers” usually claim that government control of health care raises quality and lowers cost. In fact, government involvement does just the opposite. For proof, one need look no further than the way the state Medicaid programs treat the severely mentally ill.
READ MOREGovernment Health Care: When Only Money Matters0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- March 21, 2001
Colorado health care “reformers” usually claim that government control of health care raises quality and lowers cost. In fact, government involvement does just the opposite. For proof, one need look no further than the way the state Medicaid programs treat the severely mentally ill.
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Immunization Exemption Protects Children0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- January 31, 2001
Last December, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a paper on how well measles and pertussis vaccines protect Colorado children from disease. Unsurprisingly, it concluded that unvaccinated children were more likely to contract measles and whooping cough than vaccinated ones. It also reported that schools with more unvaccinated children are more likely to have outbreaks of these diseases.
READ MOREColoradans Can't Afford The 'Prescription Drug Fair Pricing Act'0
- HEALTH CARE - Issue Backgrounder
- January 26, 2001
House Bill 01-1108. Prescription Drug Fair Pricing Act. Creates a new state health insurance program that is not means tested. Makes the state a prescription drug wholesaler, politicizes prescription drug pricing, creates a new bureaucracy to act as a commercial middleman, gives the state full access to retail pharmacy business records, puts small bio-tech firms at risk by creating a new category of business crimes.
READ MOREColo. survey finds it pays to shop for prescription prices0
- HEALTH CARE - Publications, HEALTH CARE – Press
- August 29, 2000
Fort Collins The Coloradoan (August 2000) Author: Sally Bridges PDF of full Paper Scribd version of full Paper As George W. Bush and Al Gorge try to sell voters on their prescription drug plans, local researchers are warning seniors not to but it. Their message is simple: If you want to save money on your prescription
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Linda Gorman, Director, Health Care Policy Center
Email: Linda@i2i.org
Phone: 303-279-6536, ext 107