ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Health and Welfare
- Defined contribution health insurance
Source: National Center for Policy Analysis
Author: Greg Scandlen
Country: United States
- As the cost of health benefits continues to increase, a growing number of employers are considering switching to "defined contribution"health insurance, making health insurance "personal and portable." Workers could "own" their own policies; they would no longer "borrow" the coverage from their employer or lose it once the employment stops. (10/26/00)
- How health tax credits for families would supplement employee-based coverage
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Stuart M. Butler PHD
Country: United States
- Butler explains why a variant of employee-based health coverage is needed, especially for individuals that are employed by smaller companies. (03/17/01)
- Mental Health Mandates in Ohio and Beyond
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: James A. Damask
Country: United States
- State legislatures have increasingly sought to regulate health care, especially with respect to mental health benefits following the passage of the federal Mental Health Parity Act of 1996. Often these regulations have come in the form of mandates, ultimately paid for by the insured, which compel insurance companies to provide certain benefits, and to guarantee issuance and renewal of policies.
- AAPS proposal for Medicare reform
Source: Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Country: United States
E-mail: aaps@free-market.net
- This longtime pro-liberty doctors group puts forth its plan to reform Medicare by expanding choice.
- Principled Mental Health System Reform
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Timothy A. Kelly
Country: United States
- A look at the economics behind mental health care. (1/07/00)
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Health Risk or Health Hype?
Source: American Council on Sicence and Health
Country: United States
E-mail: acsh@acsh.org
- "In this report the American Council on Science and Health evaluates the large body of evidence that exists regarding the health effects of [environmental tobacco smoke]." The report is availabe in Adobe PDF. (12/22/99)
- A closer look at Clinton's Medicare proposal
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: James Frogue and Robert E. Moffitt PHD
Country: United States
- Frogue and Moffitt discuss Clinton's blueprint for Medicare reform, summarizing that it is time for Congress to make Medicare less bureaucratic and more economically efficient. (2/00)
- Legislative Malpractice: Misdiagnosing Patients' Rights
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Greg Scandlen
Country: United States
- "The recent debate in Congress over patients' rights and the regulation of managed care has been predicated largely on a misunderstanding of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974." Scandlen looks into how Congress is regulating "areas that have always been the responsibility of the states." The full report is available in Adobe PDF. (4/7/00)
- Congress should end the confusion over Medicare private contracting
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Robert E Moffitt
Country: United States
- Moffitt discusses the concerns that are raised from the law on private contracting which holds that a Medicare patient may contract privately with a doctor only if that doctor signs an affidavit to that effect, submits the affidavit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) within 10 days, and then drops out of Medicare for two full years. (2/18/00)
- Curing the therapeutic state
Source: Reason
Country: United States
- In this interview, Thomas Szasz speaks on the medicalization of American life. (7/00)
- Divorce: Tennessee style
Source: TIPP
Author: A. Roger Abramson, Esq.
State: TN, Country: United States
E-mail: 4you@tnpolicy.org
- In depth study and analysis of divorce in Tennessee, including the issue of no fault. Now a bit dated (January 1999), but still valid for research purposes. Adobe PDF file.
- Four years of MSAs: the lessons so far
Source: The Medical Sentinel
Author: Greg Scandlen
Country: United States
- A very limited pilot program to allow individuals to use Medical Savings account ended in 2000. Scandlen writes that "most people consider MSAs to be neither a panacea nor a problem, but simply another way to allocate resources to get the most from their health care dollars. Congress needs to open up the program so that all Americans can choose an MSA." (12/00)
- The FDA and HCFA (part I): unconstitutional regulatory agencies
Source: Medical Sentinel
Author: Dr. James A. Albright
Country: United States
E-mail: medical@free-market.net
- In the first of a two-part series, Dr. Albright explains why the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Health Care Finance Administration (HCFA, a.k.a. Medicare) are unconstitutional agencies. (10/00)
- How Clinton's healthcare regulations will undermine privacy
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Sue Blevins
Country: United States
- According to Blevins, "pending medical privacy regulations will do little to protect patients' medical privacy and will allow the federal government--not individuals--to decide who has access to patients' private medical information." (4/20/00)
- Mandatory Reporting of Medical Errors: Sound Prescription or Policy Malpractice?
Source: Mackinac Center
Author: Alfredo G. Esposto
Country: United States
- New mandates on doctors could actually harm patients by making care less accessible. (5/1/00)
- Mad cow: a new American scare campaign
Source: GCN
Country: United States
- More than ten years after schools pulled apples off lunch menus in response to unfounded Alar fears, the usual suspects are back, orchestrating yet another “scare” campaign -- this time against "mad cow disease". This Guest Choice report debunks the whole thing. (2/06/01)
- Transformation of medical ethics through time (part I): medical ethics and statist controls
Source: Medical Sentinel
Author: Dr. Miguel A. Faria Jr.
Country: United States
E-mail: medical@free-market.net
- The first in a two-part series, this essay examines how statist controls over medicine have transformed medical ethics from serving the patient first to serving the government and government-created HMOs first. (4/98)
- Transformation of medical ethics through time (part II): medical ethics and statist controls
Source: Medical Sentinel
Author: Dr. Miguel A. Faria Jr.
Country: United States
E-mail: medical@free-market.net
- The second in a two-part series, this essay examines how statist controls over medicine have transformed medical ethics from serving the patient first to serving the government and government-created HMOs first. (4/98)
- Vaccinating children: where do we draw the line?
Source: Institute for Health Freedom
Author: Sue Blevins
Country: United States
E-mail: feedback@forhealthfreedom.org
- "Currently, the majority of American children are given 33 doses of 10 different vaccines by the time they reach age five. But before this trend goes any farther, lawmakers and parents should question the long-term effects of these vaccines on children's health and consider the proper role of government in this area."
- Restoring health freedom: the case for a universal tax credit for health insurance
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Sue Blevins
Country: United States
- Currently, tax credits for health insurance are limited to employers, limiting the options of individuals and making health-care more expensive and less efficient. A universal tax credit, Blevins argues, would increase patient power and decrease prices. (12/12/97)
- The medical monopoly: protecting consumers or limiting competition?
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Sue Blevins
Country: United States
- Excellent scholarly piece which examines the origins of the medical monopoly (i.e., restrictive licensure laws) and how it makes health-care more expensive and less innovative. (12/15/95)
- The patients' bill of rights: get two lawyers and call me in the morning
Source: Mackinac Center
Author: Roger H. Leemis
Country: United States
- Leemis explains how costly litigation, prompted by a new “patients’ bills of rights,” would put medical decisions in the hands of lawyers and bureaucrats, not doctors and their patients.
- Facts about 'Functional Foods'
Source: American Council on Science and Health
Author: Kathleen Meister
Country: United States
- This report evaluates the scientific evidence for a variety of health effects from eating certain foods, and ranks them according to the strength of the evidence. It is available in Adobe PDF. (04/10/02)
- Myths about employer-sponsored health insurance
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- Tax advantages encourage dependency on employers for health coverage and keep people out of the individual market where better-customized offerings might be found and an influx of customers could help lower costs. (12/8/00)
- Medical Savings Accounts: the necessary centerpiece of health care reform
Source: Small Business Survival Committee
Author: Raymond J. Keating
Country: United States
E-mail: sbsc@free-market.net
- This report explains how MSAs work, highlights the benefits for consumers and the health care marketplace, and lays out the necessary policy steps to make MSAs a viable choice for all health care consumers (available in Adobe Acrobat). (04/01)
- Dry-cleaning chemical poses no health threat to consumers
Source: American Council on Science and Health
Author: Michael Kamrin
Country: United States
- "[T]he American Council on Science and Health [has] concluded that the dry-cleaning fluid perchloroethylene (also called perc or PCE) is not hazardous to humans at typical levels of use." (07/03/01)
- Protecting the children: Risk assessment, risk management, and children's environmental health
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Gail Charnley
Country: United States
- "[This study] finds that children generally are not more susceptible to chemical toxicity than adults, and that where differences do occur they are small." It is available in Adobe PDF. (09/01)
- Welfare Reform That Works: Explaining the welfare caseload decline, 1996–2000
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Michael J. New
Country: United States
- In this report New examines the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and concludes that the reduction in state welfare caseloads was largely a function of stronger state welfare sanctions rather than economic growth. It is available in Adobe PDF. (05/07/02)
- A Medicare prescription drug primer
Source: Heritage Foundation
Country: United States
- Heritage experts clarify the prescription drug debate facing Congress. (9/06/02)
- Analyzing medical liability reform proposals
Source: The Federalist Society
Author: staff
Country: United States
- Paper examining two sets of congressional initiatives for medical liability suits. (PDF file) (07/02)
- Treatment denied: State formularies and cost controls restrict access to prescription drugs
Source: WPC
Author: Linda Gorman
Country: United States
- "The official enthusiasm for prescription drug formulary lists demonstrates yet again that government monopolies in health care are a sure prescription for poor results, substandard medical practices and treatment denied for the most vulnerable patients." (2/03)
- Cancer Clusters: Findings vs. Feelings
Source: The American Council on Science and Health
Author: David Robinson
Country: United States
- "This report discusses the potential cancer clusters in Toms River, New Jersey and Long Island, New York, because they contain many elements typical of cancer cluster investigations and have received considerable media attention." It concludes that there is no evidence of a link between so-called "clusters" and exposure to trace environmental chemicals. (02/02)
- Jury awards forcing doctors off jobs
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: James M. Taylor and Conrad F. Meier
Country: United States
- "In the wake of increasingly hefty jury awards, insurance companies offering malpractice coverage have either been forced out of business or required to raise premiums dramatically. Jury Verdict Research ... reports that between 1999 and 2000 ... the median malpractice jury award rose 43 percent." (3/02)
- Demonizing drugmakers: The political assault on the pharmaceutical industry
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Doug Bandow
Country: United States
- "Policymakers must avoid taking steps that would, intentionally or not, wreck a world-leading industry and deny people access to life-saving medicines." (PDF file) (5/8/03)
- Battling for control of health care resources
Source: Independent Institute
Author: E. Haavi Morreim
Country: United States
- The battle for control over health care and its resources has been waged mainly among physicians, hospitals, health plans, and payers. This conflict can be greatly reduced by giving patients more power and responsibility for making their own health-care decisions. (PDF file) (12/02)
- Individual unemployment accounts
Source: Independent Institute
Author: Lawrence Brunner and Stephen M. Colarelli
Country: United States
- The unemployment insurance compensation system in the United States is out of date and in trouble. .... We propose an alternative unemployment policy based on the Individual Unemployment Account (IUA). (11/03)
- The future of Medicaid: Consumer directed care
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: James Frogue
Country: United States
- Analysis of Medicaid's problems and suggestions to solve them. (1/10/03)
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