Linda Gorman

What You Need to Know About Amendment 73 and Public Education Funding 0
- September 18, 2018
IB-C-2018 (Sept. 2018) Author: Linda Gorman DOWNLOAD REPORT IN PDF Executive Summary: In November 2018, voters will decide on Amendment 73, a state constitutional amendment which would increase income, property and corporate taxes in Colorado to fund public education. If Amendment 73 passes, Colorado will no longer have equal state income tax rates for all.
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For health policy that works, look at the evidence 0
- May 30, 2018
When a policy generating a lot of fame and fortune starts to go wrong, the temptation to ignore new data can be irresistible. For over 50 years, mainstream U.S. health policy makers have promoted research supporting Kenneth Arrow’s 1963 assertion that “it is the general social consensus, clearly, that the laissez-faire solution for medicine is
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Proposed health transparency bills bad medicine for Colorado 0
- May 1, 2018
Maybe Colorado legislators can explain how the heavy cost of their transparency bills will improve Obamacare insurance rules, Medicare pricing, the FDA review process, and the Hatch-Waxman Act corruption of normal patent law.
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Obama is gone, but his fiscal waste is still befouling American health care 0
- April 3, 2018
For real health care waste, it is hard to beat the Obama administration. Crony capitalists, academic institutions, select nonprofits, and state bureaucracies are raking in enormous sums. Ordinary Americans are paying the price. If government officials cannot find the courage to return control of health care to patients and their doctors, American health care quality
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Senate Bill 18-023: The Free Speech in Medicine Act 0
- February 12, 2018
IB-A-2018 (February 2018) Author: Linda Gorman DOWNLOAD REPORT IN PDF Executive Summary: The question is whether prohibiting the dissemination of truthful medical information about off-label use of prescription drugs does more good than harm.
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It’s time to scrap federal physician quality measurements 0
- January 17, 2018
When ObamaCare passed, ABMS had a virtual monopoly. The Affordable Care Act used the standard tactic of creating market power by listing specific requirements that only the ABMS program could meet. Among other things, “equivalent programs” would have to report patient data to a registry, require periodic exams, and conducting periodic “practice assessments.”
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