Linda Gorman
Linda Gorman is a Senior Fellow at the Independence Institute, a free market think tank in Golden, Colorado and director of the Institute's Health Care Center. A freelance writer and researcher, she was a weekly columnist for the Colorado Daily in Boulder. Her articles have appeared in local newspapers, professional journals, and publications such as The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics.
She has worked as an economic researcher for a Denver mutual fund company, and was an adjunct professor and a principal investigator for several military manpower projects at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Her academic degrees are in economics.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008Kids Count Can't Count in ColoradoAnother Big Foundation Has Data Problems By Linda GormanFiled As: Budget and Tax, General, Health CareColorado’s children are in trouble. They will be better off if state government takes more of their parents’ money. That’s the Colorado Children’s Campaign’s story, and it’s sticking to it. In its 2008 KidsCount in Colorado! report, the Colorado ... more »»
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Saturday, May 31, 2008Bad Debt BaloneyA Hospital Transparency Update By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareA developing meme in the storyline against market oriented health care reforms is that consumer-directed health plans are responsible for an increase in hospital bad debt. Given that hospitals have a history of reporting thoroughly misleading data on the cost of care, as when they conflated uncompensated ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008Why High Health Care Costs in Milwaukee?By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareThe Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has issued a report on high health care costs in Milwaukee. I was the author. The basic conclusion is that prices would be lower if hordes of expert American shoppers were set ... more »»
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Friday, May 2, 2008Grassroots Health Care ReformManitowoc County Saves Big With HSAs By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareIn 2006 Wisconsin’s Manitowoc County needed to control its employee health care costs. With union agreement, it decided to experiment with a qualified high deductible health plan coupled with a health savings account. For single employees, the county planned to contribute $1,500 to a health savings ... more »»
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Friday, May 2, 2008A Liberal on Health Policy from EmpowerTexans:By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareEmpowerTexans sums up the child health care debate from the liberal perspective: “The word ‘children’ is magical.” Say the word and the money is magically transported out of your wallet. Video here. ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008Take $419,953 From Roads to Raise Health Care CostsBusiness as Usual at the Colorado Statehouse By Linda GormanFiled As: Budget and Tax, Health CareIn the annual General Assembly spend fest, this year’s Colorado legislature has sunk to new depths by diverting money from the state highway budget to fund regulations that will increase health care costs. While the roads and bridges crumble, Colorado politicians have already begun the ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008Making Up Medicaid CutsBy Linda GormanFiled As: Budget and Tax, Health CareIf Families USA were a newspaper, it would be a supermarket tabloid carrying articles about alien abductions. Its latest campaign is a series of press releases screaming that states will lose thousands of jobs and zillions of dollars due to the Bush Administration Medicaid cuts. Local newspapers in ... more »»
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008Should Medical Privacy Laws Hamper Murder Investigations?Is this a real Death of Common Sense? By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareA valuable posting at Overlawyered.com points out that HIPAA and state privacy laws may have unintended consequences. One is preventing police from having speedy access to medical records when a patient is a prime suspect in a murder. See more »»
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Monday, April 7, 2008When Health Care Transparency is a Trojan HorseBy Linda GormanFiled As: General, Health CareStart your week right by enjoying the gate crashing call to action pasted below. An email from a progressive group, it clearly shows how calls for health care transparency are being used as Trojan horses--without more government control we'll never know what is going on--and why those interested in ... more »»
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Thursday, February 7, 2008Can Families USA Count?Its Cost-Shift Numbers Make One Wonder By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareThe magic number being used to gin up support for a Massachusetts-style more-government-is-better health care reform in Colorado is $950, as in the "cost of doing nothing" about health care reform is $950. Or, as the Denver Post put it "Coloradans who have insurance spend an extra ... more »»
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