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Linda Gorman’s Commentaries

No one knows how much the people of the United States should spend on health care. When medical innovation improves treatments that...

Gorman: US Hospitals are Safer

The Trump administration has decided to challenge the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in court. Some Republicans...

If The Court Strikes Down Obamacare, How Bad Would That Be?

A version of this article first appeared on theHill.com HERE The Trump administration wants to use an average of the drug prices paid by...

Gorman in The Hill: Trump’s Drug Plan Wrong Rx

The federal government spent $341 billion from 2014 through 2016 on subsidizing individual coverage so that people would buy it (Not...

Gorman: Obamacare has been extremely wasteful

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has voted to recommend scrapping the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System because it “cannot...

Gorman in The Hill: Doctor Incentives Rx is Failing

You know you are in the silly season when the charges against sensible tax reform become more and more outrageous. The silliest and most...

Gorman in Forbes: Will Tax Reform Kill People?

By Linda Gorman Originally posted at The Hill, December 2017 Congress has decided to stop forcing federal taxpayers to subsidize people...

Gorman in The Hill​: States are bilking Uncle Sam wth Medicaid scams

Originally posted at The Hill, September 2017. In a new Independence Institute working paper on the use and misuse of the False Claims...

Congress Could Improve Health Care by Reforming the False Claims Act

Originally posted at The Hill, September 2017. Repealing ObamaCare would produce better outcomes for patients, those who care for them,...

Foreign Health Care is No Model for the United States

By Linda Gorman Originally posted at The Hill, August 2017 In Washington, the healthcare debate isn’t about rescuing the people in the...

ObamaCare is a success — at sucking vast sums of money from the private sector

By Linda Gorman Originally posted at The Tribune, June 2017 There are many ways to provide medical care for people with pre-existing...

Gorman: We can cover those with pre-existing conditions without Obamacare

By John C. Goodman Co-authored by Beverly Gossage and Linda Gorman. Originally posted at Forbes, May 2017 Obamacare’s destruction of the...

Individual Insurance Buyers Were Better Off Without Obamacare

Originally posted at The Hill, May 2017. There are many ways to provide medical care for people with pre-existing conditions. Real world...

ObamaCare has Failed Patients with Pre-Existing Conditions

By Linda Gorman Originally posted at The Hill, May 2017 There are many ways to provide medical care for people with pre-existing...

ObamaCare has failed patients with pre-existing conditions

Risk pools were not perfect. But they worked much better than the individual market today. Prior to Obamacare, for example, premiums...

Gorman at Forbes: Risk Pools Work Better Than Obamacare

Originally posted at The Hill, March 2017. The people who crafted the Republican ObamaCare reform bill seem to want to help. They promise...

Why the Republican Version of ObamaCare is a Sham

By Linda Gorman Originally posted at The Hill, March 2017 The people who crafted the Republican ObamaCare reform bill seem to want to...

Why the Republican version of ObamaCare is a sham

By John C. Goodman Originally posted at Forbes, October 2016 When the rest of the nation goes to the polls in November, residents of...

Will Colorado Vote to Socialize Its Health Care System?
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