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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 is also a contributor to the State Policy Blog and a frequent guest on Independent Thinking.
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.
A partial list of publications includes:
'Towards Nondestructive Government: 5 Rules for Safe Public Policy,' and 'Compassion or Compulsion: Proposition 187 and the Immigration Debate,' monographs published by the Independence Institute in its Issue Paper series.
'Attracting Capital to Emerging Markets,' U.S./Mexico Global Forum, Oaxaca, Mexico. University of Colorado, Institute for Policy Research and Implementation. Marshall Kaplan, Executive Director. November 9-12, 1995.
'Minimum Wages,' and 'Discrimination.' Two sections in the Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics, David R. Henderson, editor. New York, Warner Books, 1993.
'General Intellectual Achievement, Enlistment Intentions, and Racial Representativeness in the U.S. Military.' Armed Forces & Society, 1993, 19, 4 (Summer). 'Enlistment Motivations of Army Reservists: Money, Self-Improvement, or Patriotism?' Armed Forces & Society, 1991, 17, 4 (Summer), both with George W. Thomas.
Articles by Linda Gorman Issue Backgrounder
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House Bill 09-1293: Tax Sick People to Create a Hospital Slush Fund (IB-2009-D) [PDF]
Taxing sick people to create a hospital slush fund. | 03-31-2009 | Exposing TABOR Data Games: A Second Reply to CBPP (IB-2007-B) [PDF]
The case against the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) is built on a shaky foundation of misleading data. The latest example of weak arguments comes from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). | 03-12-2007 | What if...Amendment 42 passes? (IB-2006-I) [PDF]
Why not raise the minimum wage in order to help the working poor? Because, while raising the minimum wage hurts a number of people--consumers, business owners, employees, and taxpayers--it's those on the lowest rung of the socioeconomic ladder who will suffer the most. Instead of improving their quality of life, Amendment 42 likely would reduce opportunities for the working poor to raise themselves out of poverty. Read all about it in Linda Gorman's latest Issue Backgrounder titled What if...Amendment 42 passes? | 11-17-2006 | Referendum C: Rewarding the Colorado Assembly for Behaving Irresponsibly [PDF]
What does Referendum C do? | 10-12-2005 | What Have They Been Smoking? Tax Supporters versus the Truth [PDF]
Perhaps Amendment 35 advocates can explain why the U.S. General Accounting Office reports that cigarettes have been smuggled into the U.S. from China, Malaysia, Korea, Russia, Latvia, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the Philippines, even though Colorado is much more convenient for an American traveler. | 07-09-2004 | | Illegal Aliens Attending Public Institutions of Higher Education | 02-26-2004 | | Health Care For The Mentally Ill | 09-19-2001 | | Coloradans Can't Afford The 'Prescription Drug Fair Pricing Act' | 01-26-2001 | | Some Frequently Overlooked Facts in Gun Policy Discussions (revision | 09-01-2000 | | HB 1131: Seat Belt Law Endangers Innocents | 02-18-2000 | | House Bill 1127: Ending the Use of Student Fees to Collect Money for Activist Organizations | 02-02-2000 | | Immunization Bill Would Create Government Medical Dossiers on Everyone, and Would Not Improve Health | 02-02-2000 | | Mandatory Bicycle Helmets | 06-18-1999 | | Creating a Colorado Health Care Task Force | 03-12-1999 | | More Taxes and Less Free Speech | 02-11-1999 | | Tobacco Settlement Revenue: The Money Belongs to the Taxpayers, not the Government | 02-11-1999 | Issue Paper
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Kids Count! Report Showcases Misleading Child Poverty Numbers (IP-11-2008) [PDF]
This issue paper shows that Kids Count In Colorado!, a report distributed by the Colorado Children’s Campaign, likely overstates the rise in child poverty in Colorado.
| 12-21-2008 | Amendment 35: Taxing Tobacco Users to Fund Special Interests (IP-9-2004) [PDF]
Proponents of the Tobacco Tax initiative claim that increasing taxes on tobacco products will improve health care for children, help smokers by making them quit, and help taxpayers by making smokers pay for the extra health care that their habit makes them consume. These claims are grossly misleading. | 09-25-2004 | Medicaid Drug Formularies (IP-6-2003) [PDF]
Medicaid spending is projected to exceed $276 billion in 2003. It will be larger than Medicare. Some experts predict that without significant reform it will bankrupt the states by 2020. | 05-01-2003 | Why Pay More? Simple Insurance Reform Would Save Millions (IP-2-2002) [PDF]
A simple reform to Colorado’s insurance laws could save Colorado families hundreds of thousands of dollars each in lifelong health care costs. | 04-01-2002 | Treatment Denied: Colorado Health Care 'Reform' and the Mentally Ill (IP-2-2001) [PDF]
Experiments around the world with government run health care systems demonstrate that shortages are common, costs increase, technological progress slows dramatically, and quality declines when government takes control. The data also show that Americans get more for their money in the private health care marketplace. | 04-01-2001 | | Towards Non-Destructive Government (IP-3-1998) | 02-01-1998 | | Compassion Vs. Compulsion (IP-5-1995) | 05-01-1995 | | Health Scare: Six Myths about the U.S. Health Care System (IP-23-1993) | 12-01-1993 | | ColoradoCare: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? (IP-22-1993) | 11-29-1993 | Opinion Editorial
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Why We're 'Crazy' About Health Care Choice
The Aurora Sentinel Editor Dave Perry dismisses the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative as "crazy" and says its supporters "clearly have lost" their minds. | 01-29-2010 | Canadian Company Begins Real U.S. Health Care Reform
If you need health care, Rick Baker may be able to save you a lot of money. | 10-26-2009 | Economic Research on Direct-Purchase Health Insurance: New Models for Real Health Care Reform
Eighty years after governments began seeking to determine the shape of U.S. health coverage, economists who study direct-purchase insurance have created a body of literature suggesting that market-oriented health care reform has far more promise than the decades-old plans that seek to impose the Blue Cross model on the entire population. | 06-01-2009 | Public Option Health Plan Fails Modeling Test in Colorado
The Obama administration has proposed a government-run health insurance plan generally referred to as a "public option." | 05-21-2009 | Safety and Cell Phone Usage in Cars
The most distracting thing about cell phone usage in cars is the amount of time the Colorado General Assembly has spent on a law that if passed will make virtually no difference in making Colorado roads safer. | 04-29-2009 | Rationing Care: Oregon Changes Its Priorities
Before ceding control of health care rationing to government, Americans should consider the priorities of the political bodies in charge of health programs in Oregon and Britain. | 03-05-2009 | National Puppet Masters Pull Strings for Local Health Reform Groups
Ever wonder why health care “reforms” that have failed everywhere they’ve been tried still get attention? | 03-05-2009 | Why Kids Count Can’t Count
So how does it get a 73 percent increase? By serving up artificially low 2000 numbers. | 01-19-2009 | How to Provide Health Insurance for All
Providing health insurance for everyone who wants it doesn’t have to come with a high price tag. | 12-04-2008 | State Officials Talking Trash on Taxes
A vote against tax increases is a vote to control spending... | 08-30-2008 | Legislative Business As Usual: Take Money from Roads to Increase Health Care Costs
Colorado legislators say they want to fix the roads and cut health care costs. What they actually do is divert money from roads to increase health care costs. | 05-08-2008 | Colorado Health Care Reform: Reincarnating Failed Policies
With so many promising reforms on the horizon there is no excuse for reincarnating failed policies. | 03-25-2008 | Health care "reform" in Colorado: Go home and die; it's cheaper.
Health care reform update: dead patients cost less | 12-03-2007 | It’s Official: Medicaid Managed Care Does Not Save Money
Medicaid managed care proves that state run health facilities will produce big theoretical savings but in practice, the real world is unlikely to oblige. | 10-24-2007 | Cheap medicine proves costly in patients’ lives
The lessons for health care reform courtesy of Canada, Europe and Northern California are clear. Power over patients corrupts. Absolute power, whether held by government or the private sector, corrupts absolutely. | 09-17-2007 | SCHIP: Why Pay When You Can Get It For Free?
When rational people hear about free care at emergency rooms and clinics and know that they can apply for Medicaid anytime they need really expensive health care, they conclude that only suckers would continue to pay their own money for something that is free. | 09-09-2007 | Medicare-negotiated prices lead to shortage of prescription drugs
Do big buyers always get the best prices? | 01-21-2007 | Government Negotiated Prices Creates Drug Shortage
Government-negotiated prices for prescription drugs is not “reform”
but rather the resurgence of Soviet-style economics. | 01-10-2007 | | Precios Negociados por el Gobierno Generan Escasez de Drogas | 01-10-2007 | The Uninsured Crowd the Emergency Room and Other Health Care Fairy Tales
People who want to expand government health care programs love to tell stories. | 09-07-2006 | | Who Will Protect the Patients? | 03-09-2005 | | Is Health Insurance Cheaper than You Think? | 02-03-2005 | | What Have They Been Smoking? | 10-11-2004 | | Tobacco Tax Follies | 09-29-2004 | | Evidence-Based Medicine Turns Patients into Pets | 03-04-2004 | | Health Care Reform: Liberate Patients or Oppress Them? | 08-28-2003 | | Global Warming and Little Green Monsters | 04-25-2003 | | Activists Promote Known Failures as Health Care Reform | 04-05-2003 | | Single Payer Singularly Unsuccessful | 01-11-2003 | | Anti-Smoking Guns Deliberate Ignorance | 01-09-2003 | | Heath Wins Dry Creek Elementary School Space Aliens Award | 10-30-2002 | | Public Schools: Spending Money in all the Wrong Places | 09-05-2002 | | Pharmaceutical Price Controls: Pay Now or Pay Later | 06-19-2002 | | Proposed Health Care Slush Fund Violates The Public Trust | 05-08-2002 | | Do We Need Warning Labels For Lies In The Library? | 04-17-2002 | | The Perils of Publicly-Subsidized Private Piggy Banks | 12-26-2001 | | Paying Twice for Government Health Care | 08-30-2001 | | Government Health Care: When Only Money Matters | 03-21-2001 | | Immunization Exemption Protects Children | 01-31-2001 | | Everything is a "Gun Show" | 08-09-2000 | | WAAKE-UP! and Feel Better--Throw the Poor Out of Work | 05-18-2000 | | With No Obligation to Educate, Schools Turn to Thought Control | 05-16-2000 | | Against Everything, For What? | 05-09-2000 | | Dangerous Myths | 05-02-2000 | | Prevent RapesSupport Concealed Carry | 04-25-2000 | | Elians Return Another Leftist Atrocity | 04-11-2000 | | Leftist Actions Speak Louder Than Words | 03-28-2000 | | Extremists Create Stress for Gain | 03-21-2000 | | Is Mental Health Treatment A Fraud? | 03-14-2000 | | How Much Should We Spend on Government? | 03-07-2000 | | Refunding the Surplus: Welfare, Whiskey, and Car Keys | 02-29-2000 | | Student Fees: Buy the Education, Skip the Brainwash | 02-22-2000 | | Money for Nothing: Increased School Spending | 02-15-2000 | | Liberal Logic's Slippery Slope | 02-08-2000 | | Private Money Buys Public Influence | 02-01-2000 | | School Vouchers--Short Run Good, Long Run Disaster | 01-25-2000 | | Recommended Reading | 01-11-2000 | | When Elections Are Not Elections | 01-04-2000 | | Bubble, Bubble, Froth or Trouble? | 12-28-1999 | | Good Reason to Celebrate Christmas | 12-21-1999 | | "Social Justice" is Tyranny | 12-14-1999 | | Propagandizing in Favor of Government Health Care | 12-07-1999 | | Bathing Students in Bathos | 11-30-1999 | | Political Activists Masquerading as Environmentalists | 11-23-1999 | | Riot Fees and Identity Politics: Making the Innocent Pay | 11-16-1999 | | Student Fees Prevent Free Speech | 11-09-1999 | | Racist Admissions: A Policy For Failure | 11-02-1999 | | Lab Rats: CU Sells Student Body to Out-of-State Foundation | 10-26-1999 | | Money For Nothing | 10-19-1999 | | Guns Save Lives | 10-12-1999 | | An End to Educational Racism? | 10-05-1999 | | Is Early Intervention Safe? | 09-28-1999 | | Imbalance of Power | 09-21-1999 | | Criminal Advantage | 09-14-1999 | | Defying Darwin | 09-10-1999 | | Are College Grads Paid More for Knowing Less? | 09-07-1999 | | Deifying Darwin | 09-03-1999 | | Let Them Eat Cake? | 08-31-1999 | | Abortion Distortion | 08-24-1999 | | Academic Frauds | 07-28-1999 | | Junk Politics | 06-23-1999 | | Making Schools Safe for Criminals | 04-23-1999 | | Compulsory Compassion | 04-20-1999 | | Just Who are The "We" of "We Pay," Anyway? | 02-24-1999 | | Safe Storage Is Unsafe Regulation | 01-20-1999 | | Corruptions Dead Canaries | 12-02-1998 | | It Isn't About Kids, And It Isn't About Tobacco | 11-09-1998 | | Is Gun Control A New Religion? | 07-29-1998 | | Jefferson County Schools Sacrifice Boys to Appease Feminists | 05-14-1998 | | Government Standards: Will They Save the Schools or Destroy Them? | 03-25-1998 | | Reality, Rights, and R-Rated Movies | 01-08-1998 | | Anti-Smoking Zealots Snuff the Rule of Law | 11-13-1997 | | Running Schools Like a Business? | 06-09-1997 | | Theyre Back, And Theyre After Your Kids | 03-19-1997 | | Welfare Benefits: Cant Work With Them, Cant Work Without Them | 01-22-1997 | | Can We Profit By Taxing Non-Profits? | 09-12-1996 | | Dumbing Down For Diversity | 07-17-1996 | | Bringing Racial Quotas to Bank Lending in Colorado | 05-23-1996 | | Californicating Colorado: A How-To-Guide | 04-03-1996 | | Governor Romer's Nanny State | 01-24-1996 | | Government Health Care: Lower Quality, Higher Costs | 01-01-1993 | |
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» Jon Caldara
- President of the Independence Institute
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» Jessica Peck Corry
- Director of the Campus Accountability Project and Property Rights Project
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» Marya DeGrow
- Research Associate, Education Policy Center
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