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Medicare reform: economics versus politics
Source: Independent Institute
Author: Robert B. Helms
Country: United States

According to Helms, "Medicare reform has been stalled not simply because of political maneuvering but also because too few economists have been willing to apply market principles to health-care issues." He calls for economists to stress that market competition would improve quality and allocate scarce resources to higher-valued uses, and that price controls are destructive. (10/20/00)

Medical Savings Accounts: Answering the critics
Source: Cato Institute
Country: United States

Medical Savings Accounts offer an alternative to government-controlled medicine, and empower consumers in the process. (5/95)

The police state of medicine - the nature of the beast
Source: Medical Sentinel
Author: Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D.
Country: United States

Government funding of medical care has led to draconian rules that bypass due process and fundamental liberty. (1998)

Goddamn the pusher man
Source: Reason
Author: Ronald Bailey
Country: United States

People are fond of bashing drug companies and calling for controls on prices, but if we want the pharmaceutical and biotech companies to find and market new life-saving drugs, then Congress and President Bush would be wise to let the sort of relatively unfettered market competition that has worked well in the past continue into the future. (03/19/01)

Free the Medical Savings Account
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Twila Brase, RN, PHN
Country: United States

The health insurance industry is a mess. The federal tax code is at the heart of our current health care challenges. The tax-free Medical Savings Account (MSA) is a powerful answer. (8/99)

Privatizing public hospitals
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Country: United States

Economic pressures make it increasingly unattractive for governments to run hospitals. There are several options for governments exploring privatization of hospitals and health clinics. (8/98)

Ten myths about the market for prescription drugs
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

Prescription drug makers and vendors are the latest set of marketplace whipping boys, but many criticisms are based on misperceptions and false information.

A High Price Prescription: Clinton's Medicare Drug Proposal
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Robert E. Moffitt, Dr. Gail Wilensky, Dr. Howard Cohen & Dwight Bartlet
Country: United States

The problems with Clinton's proposal. (11/3/99)

Comparing prescription drug proposals, Bush v. Gore
Source: NCPA
Author: Robert Goldberg
Country: United States

"The Bush prescription drug proposal is not perfect, but perhaps its greatest asset is that it assumes that drug therapy is a part of overall health care treatment for the elderly." (11/00)

The patient's bill of rights: A prescription for massive federal health regulation
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: John S. Hoff
Country: United States

Hoff discusses the "so-called Patients' Bill of Rights legislation" which he explains would expand government control over the financing and delivery of health care through massive federal regulation and would stir up new and expensive litigation. (2/29/00)

Fighting the last war
Source: NCPA
Author: Greg Scandlen
Country: United States

"Members of Congress, like old generals, keep fighting the last war. Most of the problems associated with managed care are well on their way to being fixed -- not because of anything Congress has done, but because of the demands of the market, evolving case law and changing public perceptions." (06/28/01)

Making sense of drug prices
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Patricia M. Danzon
Country: United States

Politicians and activists may be up in arms about drug prices, but differences are smaller than claimed, and proposed price regulations are worse than any perceived ill. (5/1/00)

A high price for patients: an update on government health care in Britain and Canada
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: James Frogue
Country: United States

Frogue discusses differences between the U.S. health care system and those of Britain and Canada. He holds that treatment access in Canada and Britain "is far from guaranteed, is rationed by bureaucrats, the rich receive better care, fed-up doctors flee the system and patients are left to suffer. In the U.S., our system may be imperfect, but does a far better job of serving more people." (9/00)

Bush's prescription drug benefit proposal
Source: Institute for Policy Innovation
Author: Merrill Matthews, Jr.
Country: United States

This reportt looks at George W. Bush's prescription drug proposal, and concludes that it does meet the needs of seniors. It is available in Adobe PDF. (2/1/01)

Health care quality: would it survive a single-payer system?
Source: Merrill Matthews Jr. & Dr. Robert J. Cihak
Country: United States
E-mail: wpc@free-market.net

"Many states and some in the federal government have proposed adopting a single-payer health care system. But first, we need to ask what quality health care consists of, whether a single-payer system achieves that goal, as single-payer proponents claim." (07/01)

Small business and health care reform
Source: Heartland Institute/Health Care News
Author: Conrad F. Meier
Country: United States

A new national survey reveals considerable support among small business owners for market-based solutions addressing the health insurance needs of the nation's 43 million uninsured citizens. (05/01)

Two cheers For Bush health plan
Source: NCPA
Author: John C. Goodman
Country: United States

"The solution to the nation's health care woes is to empower individuals rather than large, impersonal bureaucracies. Bush proposed to empower people by (1) creating health savings accounts, (2) encouraging individuals to purchase private insurance and (3) creating new options for enrollees in government health programs." (02/22/02)

Medical Savings Accounts: Progress and Problems under HIPAA
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Victoria Craig Bunce
Country: United States

"Expanding the availability of tax-advantaged MSA plans with high-deductible insurance could allow many Americans to economize on insurance costs, save for future medical and long-term-care expenses, and still remain protected against the risks of catastrophic illness." This report is available in Adobe PDF. (08/01)

A Medicaid Primer: Eliminating the Medicaid Ghetto
Source: American Legislative Exchange Council
Author: Richard Teske
Country: United States

This report examines state Medicaid spending and shows that it will "crowd out spending for every other state program in twenty years, and is unsustainable in its current form." It is available in Adobe PDF. (04/18/02)

Individual health insurance (part 1)
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Merrill Matthews Jr., Ph.D.
Country: United States

"What we need is a health insurance system that compliments a mobile workforce with a wide range of employer-employee relationships. One that may be connected with the workplace, but not necessarily dependent on it. One in which individuals, rather than employers, are in control." (10/01)

Individual health insurance (part 2)
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Merrill Matthews Jr., Ph.D.
Country: United States

"What we need is a health insurance system that compliments a mobile workforce with a wide range of employer-employee relationships. One that may be connected with the workplace, but not necessarily dependent on it. One in which individuals, rather than employers, are in control." (11/01)

Government controls on access to drugs
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Derek Hunter
Country: United States

"Senior citizens need look no further than Medicaid, the huge government program that covers the poor and the indigent, for examples of supply limitations to reduce costs." (5/27/03)

Medicaid drug formularies
Source: Independence Institute
Author: Linda Gorman
Country: United States

Examines whether Medicaid drug formularies safely reduce medical costs. (PDF file) (4/03)

MSAs can be a windfall for all
Source: NCPA
Author: Greg Scandlen
Country: United States

"MSAs are an attempt to bring patients back into the decision-making process by giving them more control over the resources available to them. ... Congress would do well to heed the experience of these experiments and open up the MSA law to encourage innovation." (11/01)

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