Tag Archives: Linda Gorman

Post: “Health care battle has plenty of fight left, Denver panel shows”

Denver Post: “[Linda] Gorman of the Independence Institute said the subsidies and patient-managing plans of “Obamacare” wipe consumer choice out of the picture.” Continue reading

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Colorado Medicaid errors far exceed commercial insurers’

Look forward to more costly errors at the expense of your tax dollars.  The new health control legislation (HR 3590) expands Medicaid eligibility. Linda Gorman points out that Colorado Medicaid’s error rate in paying claims is much higher than private … Continue reading

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Colorado Amendment 63, risk pools, & health care costs

A July 30 statement from a group calling itself “Colorado Deserves Better” said that Colorado Amendment 63 (Health Care Choice) “would isolate Colorado from health care costs savings by shrinking the risk pool in Colorado.”  This is unlikely, and even … Continue reading

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Navigating health care bill’s small business tax credit

Do you own a small business, or are you involved in its benefits administration?  The new health control bill (HR 3590) has a small business tax credit. But you get it if you satisfy certain criteria, which are a bit … Continue reading

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ObamaCare’s impact on taxpayers

The Heritage Foundation has a useful graphic showing the tax increases associated with ObamaCare,  HR 3590, the so-called “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” It’s from a new report titled Obamacare: Impact on Taxpayers. Here’s the abstract: The hodgepodge of … Continue reading

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The “choice” to prohibit other people’s choices

March a number of people and organizations* filed a Motion for Rehearing [pdf] in regards to the Colorado Right Health Care Choice Initiative.  The Motion contains a number of arguments that claiming that the Title Board lacks jurisdiction over the … Continue reading

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Health information technology: benefits and problems

For those interested in Colorado politics ( Colorado HB 1330) and medical privacy, check out this summary of a recent study by published by the National Center for Policy Analysis. Although many proponents discuss the perceived benefits of health information … Continue reading

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Colorado HB 1330 threatens your medical privacy

Watch Jon Caldara, Linda Gorman, and Amy Oliver discuss how ObamaCare and Colorado HB 1330 threaten your medical privacy. Part 1is about ObamaCare’s mandatory insurance and new taxes. Part 2 discusses HB 1330, which puts your medical history into a … Continue reading

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Are your medical records secure?

From Debora C. Peek of Patient Privacy Rights in the Wall Street Journal: … President Barack Obama said that his administration wants every American to have an electronic health record by 2014, and last year’s stimulus bill allocated over $36 … Continue reading

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Colorado HB 10-1330: All-payer data base makes your medical history transparent

Linda Gorman, director of the Independent Institute’s Health Care Policy Center, summarizes this bill and how it’s bad for Coloradans. Here’s a list of her main points: What the Bill Does: Gives the Executive Director of Health Care Policy and … Continue reading

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