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.
Thursday, December 6, 2007Comparative Health Insurance Premiums--Regulated Massachusetts, Unregulated ColoradoBut I'm from the government and I'm here to help! By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareMassachusetts health care and insurance are regulated to death. So the government had to step in, as in “I’m from the government and I’m here to help,” first to control insurance prices and guarantee issue in the 1990s and then to pass the Commonwealth’s 2006 health care ... more »»
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Thursday, November 29, 2007If Health Care is Unaffordable, What About Taxes, Food, and Housing?A table of family consumption going back to 1917 By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareAs Sarah Brodsky pointed out in an earlier post, Families USA and other leftie groups are trying hard to convince people that health care is “unaffordable” for anyone who has expenditures in a year that exceed 10 percent of his ... more »»
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Monday, November 26, 2007Underestimating Medicare Administrative CostsThe “Publicus Expanderamous" Spell Comes Alive at the School for Magical Health Care Reform By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareThe next time someone says that Medicare has lower administrative costs than private insurers, take a look at the papers by Mark Litow and Merrill Matthews at the Council for Affordable Health ... more »»
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Thursday, November 8, 2007QALY Care Means Go Home and DieU.S. felons have better access to drugs than Scottish cancer patients By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareOn September 8, 2006, the Scottish Medicines Consortium told patients with advanced stomach cancer to go home and die. On June 8, 2007, it said the same thing to people with advanced kidney cancer. Even though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had granted sunitinib accelerated approval for the ... more »»
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007Pew's Misleading Ad SmellsPeople told to "stand up to auto companies" that are against better fuel economy By Linda GormanFiled As: Environment, TransportationPew Charitable Trusts are running a Denver radio ad exhorting people to “stand up to the auto companies” and demand the passage of fuel economy standards mandating fleet averages of 35 miles per gallon. The ad accuses auto companies of blocking attempts to produce more fuel efficient cars. ... more »»
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Thursday, October 25, 2007Become an "Undocumented Resident" and Save!By Linda GormanFiled As: Economic principles, Health CareThe Colorado Health Care Reform Commission has done one strikingly innovative thing in its vigorous embrace of the usual quack nostrums for improving American health care by expanding government control. In the course of cozying up to the evils of an individual mandate, community rating, and ... more »»
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Monday, November 5, 2007Private Health Insurance No Protection From Unaffordable ExpensesAdvocacy research comes of age at The Access Project By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CarePart of a series designed to pave the way for nationalizing huge swaths of medical care, a new paper from The Access Project, the 2007 Survey of Farm and Ranch Operators,... more »»
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Friday, October 26, 2007Evidence-Based NonsenseGo ahead, have your baby under water By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareIn a 2004 Pediatrics article, Dr. Ken Schroeter of the Stony Brook University School of Medicine summarizes reports of near drownings, infant pneumonia, water intoxication, and infections resulting from water births. He reviews the evidence on them, finds that claims of safety and ... more »»
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007"The Efficiency of Centralization"Transcendental Bliss Comes to Health Care Reform By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareState budget documents show that Colorado officials have meditated deeply on the problem of Medicaid and their efforts have borne fruit. You must be properly prepared to appreciate the full beauty of this solution. Close your eyes. Relax your whole body. Let your chin sink. Imagine you are asleep. ... more »»
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007SCHIP follies: "I felt ashamed that I couldn't take my son to the doctor right there and then."By Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareWhen Ms. Molina’s son came down with the flu she did “the best she could” at the drug store “And as she drove home with her bad full of chest rub and pain reliever and cough medicine, she began to cry.” So begins the story on a Denver SCHIP poster family. It is headed ... more »»
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