Bureaucracy Won’t Drive Change in Health Care
Make a list of the things you think government does really well. Almost everyone can agree it is pitifully short. Why, then, would we want… Read More
Make a list of the things you think government does really well. Almost everyone can agree it is pitifully short. Why, then, would we want… Read More
This past Tuesday night Intelligence Squared US hosted a live debate at The Rockefeller University on health care. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was… Read More
MINNEAPOLIS — Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) came to the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs to “shill” for the Healthy Americans Act he’s co-sponsoring with… Read More
Today the Wall Street Journal published a letter from Barack Obama economic adviser Jeffrey Liebman responding to an op-ed by McCain advisers Martin Feldstein and… Read More
While the Massachusetts health reform has generated a significant amount of attention, few have focused on the critical Medicaid demonstration “waiver,” which enabled the reform… Read More
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual estimate of the uninsured. For some, it came as a surprise that both the rate and number… Read More
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Lesbians who want artificial insemination should rally to support greater choice in health care. That’s the real story of the recent California Supreme Court decision… Read More
As we’ve documented before, one of the left’s favorite arguments when pushing for single-payer health care is that, Medicare (a single-payer system) spends a lot… Read More
Reason Online has an article up this week titled “How Hospital Costs Ran Amok: Health care is an issue for libertarians” that concludes: Polling indicates… Read More
On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial on the Massachusetts health reform that, among other things, highlighted the roughly 150 million dollar cost… Read More
This week’s debate over the Medicare bill (H.R. 6331) ranks as the biggest battle over health care policy since last year’s bitter debate over the… Read More
If the government controls the entire health care system, the recent congressional debate over Medicare is a tart foretaste of what Americans can expect. Last… Read More
Officials in Boston and Washington are currently negotiating the renewal of Massachusetts’ Medicaid waiver, which funds a large portion of the state’s landmark health reform… Read More
One of the major points liberals deploy when arguing for socialized medicine is how much government run health care will save Americans in administrative costs…. Read More
A front-page Washington Post story reports today that there are $1.3 million people without health insurance in New Jersey. According to the Post, as a… Read More
Last week the New York Times finally reported the fact that Europe’s carbon capping scheme is a complete disaster causing higher energy prices, weakening industries,… Read More
Health care insurance companies are easy targets for so called health care experts and liberal politicians pushing socialized medicine. Problem is, most of their populist… Read More
Heritage Foundation Vice President for Domestic and Economic Policy Studies, Stuart Butler, Ph.D., will be at kaisernetwork.org today at 1:30 p.m. answering questions about the… Read More
Sen. John McCain issued a call to action on health care reform today. Despite what some political pundits and liberal critics in the media claim,… Read More
The most e-mailed story today at The New York Times looks at the trouble self-employed persons face finding health insurance. The article does not look… Read More
The USA Today has surprisingly fair examination of the three remaining presidential candidates health care plans today. Boiling down a very complicated issue the USA… Read More
There is no such thing as a free lunch. The more mandates you cram into health insurance, the more costly it is, and the more… Read More
A little more than a week before California’s February 5, primary, state legislators voted down Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s $15 billion health care proposal. Since health… Read More
The collapse of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California health plan was anti-climactic. For months, it was clear that the complex $14 billion proposal reached by Governor… Read More
President Bush has zeroed in on the key weakness of the American health care system: the inequitable and unfair federal tax treatment of health insurance…. Read More