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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Theyre Back, And Theyre After Your Kids0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- March 19, 1997
Remember ColoradoCare Backed by Governor Romer, various lawmakers, the usual citizens groups, and underwritten by more than half a million dollars from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, it would have required government health care for all. It was single-payer health care, the delivery system that consistently produces the worst health care on the planet.
READ MORECan We Profit By Taxing Non-Profits?0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- September 12, 1996
Amendment 11 would tax any real property owned by non-profit groups unless the group owns and uses the property for schools, community corrections facilities, orphanages, or housing for low-income elderly, disables, homeless or abused persons. No, taxpayers are not classified as abused persons. They are cash cows.
READ MOREDumbing Down For Diversity0
- HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
- July 17, 1996
Attorney General Gale Norton has told Colorado higher education officials that they cannot grant admission based on race. The quota crew is in a tizzy. No one quoted in Fawn Germer’s July 11 story in the Rocky Mountain News agreed with Norton’s position. Not, of course, that Colorado schools really sort applicants by race. No, they just use race as one of many factors in admission. Says Tillie Trujillo, associate director of admissions at CSU, “Are there decisions based solely on a person being diverse…absolutely not.”
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Citizen Initiatives Under Attack in Colorado0
- HEALTH CARE - Issue Papers
- February 23, 1996
Frustrated old-time politicians are taking desperate steps to resist citizen involvement in the legislative process.
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Responsible government officials will try to make the process of change as non-disruptive as possible.Compassion Vs. Compulsion0
- HEALTH CARE - Issue Papers
- May 1, 1995
Estimates of illegal immigrants in Colorado vary from 17,000 to 60,000.
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Studies have found that immigration has its most harmful economic impact on persons who are themselves recent immigrants. A 10 percent increase in immigration cause the wages of recent U.S. immigrants to fall by at least two percent.Health Scare: Six Myths about the U.S. Health Care System0
- HEALTH CARE - Issue Papers
- December 1, 1993
Myth no. 1: The U.S. health care system is inefficient. This myth is supposedly proved by the “fact” that the U.S. spends more on health care than other industrialized countries both on a per capita basis and as a percentage of gross domestic product.
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Linda Gorman, Director, Health Care Policy Center
Email: Linda@i2i.org
Phone: 303-279-6536, ext 107