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.
Monday, October 15, 2007Its Official: The 95% Solution is DeadBy Linda GormanFiled As: Health CareIn the dark ages of Clinton Care 1.0, heath care policy gurus assured the world that managed care would save enormous sums. Medicaid clients were herded into capitated health plans. State governments salivated over the projected savings. Urged on by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and other ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007Who Pays Your Medical Bills?Better without insurance than on Medicaid? Filed As: Health CareA lot of things are worse than not having health insurance. For one thing, “Death does not appear to be a short-term consequence of being uninsured.” This reassuring conclusion comes from Baker et al. in a paper on health insurance coverage, overall health, and death among the near ... more »»
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Friday, August 31, 2007No Health Insurance? No Driving for You!Filed As: Health CareWhen it comes to health insurance, the attitude of some people is simply ... remarkable. Profit is bad, government control is good, and unintended consequences will abound. The following requirements are derived from a document developed by a state health reform subcommittee. It is hard at work ... more »»
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Friday, August 24, 2007High Deductible Health Plan Cuts Emergency Department UseFiled As: Health CareGovernors, commissions, and legislatures intent on building health care regulatory empires to force larger and larger segments of the U.S. population into depending on government for health care tend to view personal ownership of health insurance as A Bad Thing. This goes double for high-deductible ... more »»
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Friday, August 24, 2007Recomended Reading for Putative Health ReformersFiled As: Health CareWhile state health care reform commissions labor mightly to put into practice the unworkable health plans cooked up by various foundations dedicated to having the U.S. health system imitate the Canadian, British, and European failures, the Council for Affordable Health Insurance has issued more »»
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007Fantasy Cost Estimates Drive Colorado PlanFiled As: Health CareWant to put lipstick on the single payer pig? The Lewin Group is the group for you. It has just finished yet another 230-page final report on the cost of reforming a state’s health care system. Once again, its out-of-date model rediscovers the magic of single payer. According to the model, to ... more »»
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007High Costs in Wisconsin, part oneFiled As: Health CareWhen hospital costs go up, so do the costs of health insurance. Take for example the case of a 37-year old non-smoking man seeking an individual policy. He is in excellent health. A policy for him from Assurant Health costs more in Milwaukee than it does in Indianapolis, Kansas City, Chicago, Denver, ... more »»
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007High Costs in Wisconsin, part twoFiled As: Health CareA variety of reports suggest that Wisconsin’s hospital costs have risen faster than average over the last two decades. In 1998, the Statistical Bulletin from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company reported that Wisconsin hospital charges for colon cancer treatment were 27 percent below average. ... more »»
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Thursday, May 10, 2007How Government Health Care Saves MoneyFiled As: Health CareWelcome to the latest cost saving tip from a government controlled hospital: reuse sheets. Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England, is a National Health Service Hospital. It is having money problems. On April 13 the online Daily Mail more »»
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Saturday, May 5, 2007To Some Health Reformers, Medicaid Is the BestFiled As: Health CareThe media says that the states are taking the lead on health reform. The number of health reform commissions that are meeting in various states, the Massachusetts plan, and the fact that California is (always) working on single payer are invariably listed as evidence. Oregon and Switzerland, once popular, ... more »»
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