ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Audio and Video > Health and Welfare
- Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States
- Can tax reform lead to more affordable health insurance? The authors of "Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform" discuss the possibilities at this Cato Forum. The presentation is in RealAudio format. (9/22/99)
- The Coming Crisis in Long-Term Care Financing
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States
- "This Forum presents contrasting points of view on what needs to be done [about long-term care financing] now to avert a financial catastrophe in the future." The forum can be viewed in RealAudio format. (10/13/99)
- Health Care: The Latest Pretext for America's Leviathan
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
Country: United States
E-mail: info@fff.org
- FFF advances the libertarian philosophy in uncompromising publications supporting individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government. Available in audiotape ($9) or video ($19).
- Repealing, Not Reforming, Medicare
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
Author: Sue Blevins
Country: United States
E-mail: info@fff.org
- FFF advances the libertarian philosophy in uncompromising publications supporting individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government. Available in audiotape ($9) or video ($19).
- Medical Privacy Regulations: Will They Guard or Endanger Confidentiality?
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States
- "The Clinton administration has set forth new rules meant to protect the confidentiality of patients' medical records. Will those rules work, or will they make access by government easier?" A discussion of these new rules is available in RealAudio format. (12/8/99)
- Welfare, work, and four years of change: where do we go from here?
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States
- This event examines the successes and failures of four years of welfare reform. It can be viewed with RealPlayer. (8/22/00)
- The future of employer-sponsored health care: defined contributions vs. defined benefits
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States
- "A panel of health benefits analysts...examine the future role of employers in health insurance decision-making, with particular emphasis on the growing role of e-commerce intermediaries in shaping consumer-driven health care." This event can be viewed with RealPlayer. (12/8/00)
- Border wars drug reimportation debate transcript
Source: PRI
Country: United States
- Text transcript of a 1/04 debate on drug reimportation, featuring Milton Friedman, Sally Pipes, Gil Gutknecht, and Don McCanne. (PDF file)
- CCF director's testimony at the FDA
Source: CCF
Author: David Martosko
Country: United States
- Text transcript of CCF's Director of Research's comments at a 10/03 FDA public meeting on obesity. A clear overview of a complex, often overly emotion-laden topic.
- Less health insurance and better health care: Two-tiered health benefits models
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States
- This panel examines "how health insurers and employers could provide less insurance coverage but help workers obtain more consumer-driven health care." This event can be viewed with RealPlayer. (11/02/01)
- Protection against higher premiums based on changes in health status: Is there a market-based solution?
Source: Cato Institute
Country: United States
- The panel at this Cato event examined the performance and potential of market-based alternatives to healthcare regulations that require community rating, guaranteed issue, and nondiscrimination based on health status. RealPlayer is needed. (11/01/02)
- Will more health insurance improve health outcomes?
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States
- John Mirowsky, Tom Miller, and Theodore Pincus debate the connection between health insurance and a healthy populace. (Real Video, Real Audio files.) (06/19/02)
- Consumer Freedom On The Air
Source: Center for Consumer Freedom
Country: United States
- With the "obesity epidemic" spurring calls for fat taxes and a continuing flood of often-baseless "latest studies," the Center for Consumer Freedom has launched a series of radio announcements, highlighting "the anti-consumer agenda of activists and extremists, the better-than-you, holier-than-thou, Big Brother crowd." (04/01/02)
- Can the government improve the market for health care and insurance?
Source: Cato Institute
Country: United States
- Watch, or listen to, this Cato Hill briefing featuring Peter VanDoren. Real Player required; page has links to RealVideo and RealAudio files. (8/03)
- Interview with HHS head Tommy Thompson
Source: GovExec.com
Country: United States
- Text transcript of an 11/03 interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, in which he's very candid about the bureaucratic process.
- Drug reimportation speech transcript
Source: PRI
Country: United States
- Text transcript of Sally Pipes' 10/03 speech on drug reimportation at the Eli Lilly company.
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