Coloradans should beware the “Transparency Trojan Horse” that will create a database containing their most personal health care information, according to an Independence Institute analysis of HB 1330 the Health Care Cost Transparency Act sponsored by State Representative John Kefalas and Senator John Morse.
Health Care Policy Center Director Linda Gorman warns that the legislation grants unlimited power to [...]

Our transparency Czarina Amy Oliver Cooke is a mom so we hear lots of parenting stories.  Right now, President Barack Obama looks like the over promising parent who constantly under delivers.  While American voters are like the kids who aren’t buying the falsehoods and simply roll their eyes every time Barack Obama utters the word “transparency.”
According to [...]

According to Governor Bill Ritter’s own transparency Web site TOP, the state paid $283,129.15 to Beaver Run Resort over the last two fiscal years (FY08-09 and FY09-10).   Several state government departments including Education, Governor’s office, Higher Ed, Human Services, Judicial, Corrections, Public Safety, Health Care Policy and Financing, and Local Affairs, spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for [...]

Transparency Czarina Amy Oliver Cooke showed COST, not one but two, very pretty, 4-color glossy brochures from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF).  Ms. Cooke received them when HCPF Director Joan Henneberry presented her “if money weren’t an object what would your department want” list to the Long Term Fiscal Stability Commission of which our [...]

Westby G. Fisher, MD of Illinois, known as Dr. Wes on his blog, picks up on Linda Gorman’s irony when she wrote about HB 1293 the “health care affordability act” in her most recent Issue Backgrounder.  In his post “The Ultimate Irony: A Sick Tax to Make Health Care Affordable,” he writes:
[L]ook for cash-strapped legislatures across the [...]

HB 1293, the Healthcare Provider Fee, adds as much as a 5.5 percent tax to every patients’ hospital bill and could cost Colorado citizens nearly $600 million per year in increased health care costs according to a new report from Independence Institute Health Care Policy Center Director Linda Gorman.
It’s bad enough that many Colorado legislators [...]