Health reform is no bargain if it imposes on the middle class the same marginal tax rates that high-income earners faced during the years of stagflation, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

FOX NEWS

A BETTER SOLUTION

There is very radical solution to the medical malpractice problem -- one that would get victims compensated quickly, regardless of fault, and erect economic incentives to reduce adverse medical outcomes, whether or not they involve malpractice, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

NATIONALJOURNALONLINE.COM

SHOULD WE BE ABLE TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE ACROSS STATE LINES?

Guaranteed-issue and community rating in the individual health insurance market would not survive 50 state regulatory regime competition, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

REFORM CAN HELP CONSUMERS AVOID HEALTH CARE MANDATES

Health insurance policies would be cheaper if costly state mandates were optional, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

DALLAS MORNING NEWS

OBAMACARE'S TWO AMERICAS

ObamaCare will create irresistible economic pressure to restructure the entire labor market, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE

GEORGIA TAKING LEAD IN INTERSTATE INSURANCE LAWS

Studies have shown that up to 12 million Americans would become insured with effective national legislation for cross-state selling Ronald E. Bachman, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis...

DAILY CALLER

Instead of suppressing the price system, there are 10 ways of dealing with the problem of preexisting conditions that make greater use of the price mechanism, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO, and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE

CONTROL COSTS WITH REAL CHOICE, REAL COMPETITION, REAL CONSUMERISM

Breaking down state barriers and allowing consumers to choose from thousands of insurance plans would cut health care costs by 5 percent and save the federal government at least $12 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office...

U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

A BETTER WAY TO REFORM HEALTH CARE

Three simple changes to health policy will reduce health care costs by over $100 billion per year and permanently reduce the number of uninsured by up to 13 million, say John F. Cogan, a senior fellow at Sanford University's Hoover Institution; Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School; and Daniel Kessler, a professor of business and law at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

OBAMA'S HEALTH PLAN -- TAXES, TAXES EVERYWHERE

President Obama's health care reform proposal incorporates a mixture of the many tax increases passed by the House and Senate, hiking taxes by almost $750 billion over ten years...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S HEALTH PROPOSAL WOULD LEAD TO PUBLIC OPTION

Far from being able to keep the plan you like, the president's health care plan seems designed to make sure you end up with only one option for your health care -- the government , says policy analyst Matt Patterson...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH

COMING TO A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU?

America's health care system needs changes, but not the kind that plague the United Kingdom and which Democrats are pushing, say observers...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Americans may have lost confidence in Congress and the White House to fix health care, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

BUSINESSWEEK

PATIENTS TO STICK CLOSER TO "MEDICAL HOME"

There are 1,100 to 1,200 walk-in retail clinics nationally; that is expected to jump to 3,200 in 2014, according to a recent report by the National Center for Policy Analysis...

LANSING STATE JOURNAL

A REAL SOLUTION FOR COVERING THE UNINSURED

Congress should transform Medicaid to provide assistance to purchase private health insurance for all who otherwise could not afford coverage, ideally with health insurance vouchers, says Peter Ferrara, Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation...

FOXNEWS

INDIVIDUAL HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS ARE BETTER

We should give vouchers to people currently eligible for Medicaid so they can fund health savings accounts instead, say Arnold Kling, a member of the Mercatus Center's Financial Markets Working Group at George Mason University and Nick Schulz, the DeWitt Wallace fellow at the American Enterprise Institute...

INSURANCE NEWS NET

IDEAS ABOUT THE MEDICARE OF THE FUTURE

Obamacare's plan to cut $500 billion from Medicare is wrong, say John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow for the National Center for Policy Analysis and Newt Gingrich, a former speaker of the House and founder of the Center for Health Transformation...

NEW YORK TIMES

The nanny state's infatuation with an obesity epidemic that does not exist is a searing indictment of this particular public health crusade, say Patrick Basham and John Luik, co-authors, with Gio Gori, of "Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Crusade"...

CATO INSTITUTE

U.S. TOPS LIST FOR HEALTH CARE SPENDING

One policy that might help reduce the cost of new cancer therapies is to streamline the process of Food and Drug Administration approval for new therapies, which would bring about increased competition, says Devon Herrick, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE

TEN GOP HEALTH IDEAS FOR OBAMA

The top 10 health ideas from the GOP would build a system that delivers more quality choices at lower cost for every American, say Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and founder of the Center for Health Transformation, and John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

TEN SMALL-SCALE REFORMS FOR PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS

In a reformed health care system, the chronically ill -- along with their doctors, employers and insurers -- should find lower-cost, higher-quality, more-accessible care in their economic self-interest, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow with the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

LONG-TERM CARE HOSPITALS RECEIVE MINIMAL SCRUTINY, HIGH PAYMENTS

About 130,000 of the 200,000 patients treated annually in long-term care hospitals are Medicare beneficiaries...

NEW YORK TIMES

THE "CON" OF AMERICAN HOSPITALS

To build a hospital, you have to convince state regulators that the hospital is needed, says TV commentator John Stossel...

FOX NEWS

Walk-in clinics, often located in big retailers like Wal-Mart and Target and staffed by nurse practitioners, are becoming more popular thanks to their convenient locations and no-appointment-necessary policy, according to Devon Herrick, a senior fellow for the National Center for Policy Analysis...

FOXBUSINESS.COM

A TRUE ROADMAP TO FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY

Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) "Roadmap for America's Future Act of 2010," would bring down premiums and the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors, and stop insurance company abuses, according to the Congressional Budget Office...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

WHAT COSTS $282 MILLION AN HOUR?

Government health programs are a growing burden on the federal budget, which is running annual deficits of more than $1 trillion, and rising health costs continue to batter private industry, say federal actuaries...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

WHAT HAPPENS IF NOTHING HAPPENS TO HEALTH CARE?

Without some big change, health care will amount to 19.3 percent of gross domestic product by 2019, predicts the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

WALL STREET JOURNAL/URBAN INSTITUTE

MICHIGAN TAXPAYERS SPEND $2 BILLION FOR TEACHERS' HEALTH CARE

Moving all Michigan public school employees into a state-run high-deductible Health Savings Account plan would save the state $451 million in the first year and roughly $26 billion over the next decade, according to the Mackinac Center...

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE

Net spending on health care would increase by an estimated $35 billion between 2010 and 2019 if all states received the special deal that Nebraska received, according to the Congressional Budget Office...

THE HILL

MARRIAGE PENALTY IN HEALTH BILLS COULD COST MARRIED COUPLES THOUSANDS

The marriage penalty contained in either of the two health care reform bills could affect millions of Americans if employers push their employees into health exchange plans in lieu of providing more costly employer-based insurance themselves, says Devon Herrick, a Senior Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE

A NEW APPROACH TO HEALTH REFORM

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has an idea to fix health reform that doesn't involve specifying what coverage people must buy, says Diana Furchtgott-Roth, an Adjunct Fellow with the Manhattan Institute...

REAL CLEAR MARKETS

A SECOND NEW APPROACH TO HEALTH REFORM

Rep. Tom Price's (R-Ga.) health care reform bill allows -- but does not require -- employers to offer a sum to workers so that they can purchase whatever insurance plan they choose, says Diana Furchtgott-Roth, an Adjunct Fellow with the Manhattan Institute...

REAL CLEAR MARKETS

DOES BETTER HEALTH CARE MEAN HIGHER COSTS?

Medical innovation boosts life expectancy, not spending, concludes Frank Lichtenberg, an economist with Columbia University...

REASON

When it comes to meds, cheaper is not always better, says Tomas J. Philipson, the Daniel Levin Professor of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and the Chairman of Project FDA of the Manhattan Institute...

FORBES MAGAZINE

CONCIERGE MEDICINE: CONVENIENT AND AFFORDABLE CARE

Concierge medical practices strive to make medical care more accessible and convenient to patients, says Devon Herrick, a Senior Fellow with the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

THE MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH PLAN: MUCH PAIN, LITTLE GAIN

The costs of health care reform moving through Congress may be far greater than legislators and voters believe, while the benefits may be smaller than the conventional wisdom about Massachusetts similar reform suggests, say researchers Aaron Yelowitz and Michael F. Cannon...

CATO INSTITUTE

HEALTH REFORM AND THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST TAXPAYERS

Government unionized workers often have gold-plated health benefits packages that are among the most expensive in America, says Steven Malanga, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute...

REAL CLEAR MARKETS

FIVE HEALTH CARE REFORM SOLUTIONS THAT MAKE SENSE

Americans still want health care reform, but they are looking for clear, patient-centered, fiscally responsible solutions, says Dr. C.L. Gray, president of Physicians for Reform...

FOX NEWS

WHO WANTS TO TAX A MILLIONAIRE?

The "millionaire's tax" will affect more people than you think, says Veronique de Rugy...

REASON MAGAZINE

What we need now is insurance and liability reform -- not health care reform, says Dr. Mark B. Constantian, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon in New Hampshire...

U.N. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION/WALL STREET JOURNAL

HEALTH CARE REFORM AND THE STATES

There are four reasons why many states aren't keen on the pending health care bill; all involve how it will make the states' financial conditions worse...

U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE/TIME MAGAZINE

THE HOUSE HEALTH CARE BILL: STICKING IT TO SMALL BUSINESS

The employer mandate structure in the House-passed health care bill would create a strong disincentive for a business to expand compensation or even acquire new workers, says policy analyst John Ligon...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

RETAIL CLINICS: CONVENIENT AND AFFORDABLE CARE

Increasingly, patients have less costly and more convenient options for routine medical needs: retail walk-in clinics, says Devon Herrick, a Senior Fellow with the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

CANADIANS LESS FIT THAN THEY USED TO BE

Canadians of all ages have become substantially fatter and less fit over the last two decades, according to study...

CANADIAN HEALTH MEASURES SURVEY/UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

HOPE AND DELUSION IN HEALTH CARE

The Senate health "reform" bill is very similar to the reform laws in Massachusetts, where an average family of four pays more than $13,000 in premiums -- the highest in the nation, says Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients' Rights...

WASHINGTON TIMES

If you charge people a fair price for health insurance, then 50-to-60-year-olds should pay about six times as much as a 20-year-old," says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

FOXNEWS.COM

OBAMACARE ON DRUGS

The Senate's proposed change in the way retiree health benefits are taxed will cause many seniors to lose private benefits, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

MARRIED COUPLES PAY MORE THAN UNMARRIED UNDER HEALTH BILL

The built-in "marriage penalty" in both the House and Senate health care bills could mean a hike of $2,000 or more in annual insurance premiums for married couples, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

LOW LIFE EXPECTANCY IN THE UNITED STATES

Despite the poor showing on an international study, the low longevity ranking of the United States is not likely a result of a poorly functioning health care system, say researchers...

NATIONAL BUREAU ON ECONOMIC RESEARCH

MEDICARE AND THE MAYO CLINIC

President Obama needs to give some thought to the Mayo Clinic's recent decision to stop accepting Medicare payments at one of its primary care facility, says columnist Jeff Jacoby...

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW

Under the Community Living Assistance Service and Supports program, taxpayers bear the risk of a shortfall -- and shortfalls have appeared for every social insurance plan ever created by Washington, says David Gratzer, a Senior Fellow with the Manhattan Institute...

WASHINGTON TIMES

BETTER VACCINES FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC; NEW TECHNOLOGIES PROMISE AN END TO SHORTAGES

In 21st century America, we are waging war on a lethal infectious disease with World War I-era technology, says Dr. Henry I. Miller...

HOOVER INSTITUTION/WASHINGTON TIMES

SPREADING NEW YORK'S BAD MEDICINE

New York's health care regulations drive up costs and limit choices, say Stephen T. Parente, a finance professor at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management; and Tarren Bragdon, a Manhattan Institute Adjunct Fellow and CEO of the Maine Heritage Policy Center...

NEW YORK POST

WHY TAX BOTOX?

The only plausible reason to tax cosmetic surgery is that it is a politically easy target, say observers...

FORBES

FRAUD SUSPECTED IN MIAMI-DADE DIABETES CARE

An investigation has flagged Miami-Dade as accounting for over half the $1 billion that Medicare paid out nationally for treatment of homebound diabetes patients...

MIAMI HERALD

There are four outrageous budget tricks contained in Harry Reid's massive new health care bill, say observers...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

WHAT'S AT STAKE WITH OBAMACARE

Once you cut through the budget gimmicks, ObamaCare will have a 20-year price tag of more than $4.9 trillion, say observers...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

OBAMACARE TO HIKE STATE TAXES

New Medicaid spending required by ObamaCare will cost Texas ($2.8 billion in extra state spending), Pennsylvania ($1.5 billion), California ($1.4 billion) and Florida ($909 million), say authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann...

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW

STUDY ABOUT UNINSURED MAKES RIDICULOUS CLAIM

Being uninsured is like being unemployed -- it happens to lots of people for brief periods, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

HARVARD UNIVERSITY/ORLANDO SENTINEL

SENATE HEALTH REFORM PLAN PRESCRIBES HEAVY TAX DOSE

The Senate health care bill would impose massive tax increases on Day One and keep increasing your taxes well into the future, says author Michael F. Cannon...

CATO INSTITUTE

When the United States subsidizes medical innovation, the whole world benefits, say researchers Glen Whitman and Raymond Raad...

CATO INSTITUTE

IS A TAX ON "CADILLAC" PLANS FAIR?

Taxing wealthy Americans to pay for health care -- as the House bill would do -- is bad for the economy because it would take money out of the system that could be used to invest in growing businesses, says economist John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

ASSOCIATED PRESS

HARVARD STUDY USES QUESTIONABLE METHODOLOGY, SAY CRITICS

Like unemployment, uninsurance happens to many people for short periods of time, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

HARVARD UNIVERSITY/ORLANDO SENTINEL

THE END OF HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS

Democrats want to obliterate the flexibility of insurers to design products that are tailored to suit different individual needs, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

HEALTH "REFORM" THAT BURDENS OUR YOUNG

Older Americans might become more eager to control spending if they faced the true costs of their health care, says columnist Robert J. Samuelson...

WASHINGTON POST

THE SENATE HEALTH BILL: HIGHER TAXES FROM HARRY REID

In order to pay for a massive health care bill (H.R. 3590), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has created a host of new taxes that will total $370.2 billion in the next ten years, say observers...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

The House-passed health care reform bill would increase costs, cut Medicare and expand Medicaid, according to an analysis by Richard S. Foster, Chief Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

THE HILL

GOODIES FOR LABOR TUCKED AWAY IN HEALTH BILL

If the public option passes, organized labor would have considerable influence over decisions affecting most doctors, nurses and patients, says Kevin Troutman, chairman of the Healthcare Practice Group of Fisher & Phillips LLP...

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

WHERE ARE THE DOCTORS TO IMPLEMENT OBAMACARE?

America could soon look like Massachusetts, warns Timothy P. White, Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

WARNING LABEL: PELOSICARE IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH

The House health bill is neither safe nor effective. If it were medicine, the Food and Drug Administration would have to ban it, says Michael F. Cannon, director of health policy studies with the Cato Institute...

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

PLASTIC SURGEONS CRY FOUL OVER "BOTAX" PROPOSAL IN SENATE HEALTH BILL

A "botax" will reduce demand for plastic surgery, says Devon Herrick, a health economist with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

KAISER HEALTH NEWS

THE REID BILL: "HOLY WAR?"

When state mandates are added in, the true cost of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) health care bill is closer to $2.5 trillion, says Michael F. Cannon, director of health policy studies with the Cato Institute...

POLITICO.COM

An employer mandate will result in job loss and it will encourage employers not to hire employees, says John Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

WARDEN PELOSI

Under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health care reform bill, Americans who don't maintain acceptable health insurance coverage and who choose not to pay a fine/tax of up to 2.5 percent of income are subject to fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

CONGRESS WOULD COMPEL YOUNG ADULTS TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE THEY DON'T NEED

Since about one-third of young adults already reject health insurance at current prices, even more of them would avoid coverage if Congress drives those prices higher, says Aaron Yelowitz, an associate professor of economics at the University of Kentucky...

CATO INSTITUTE

THE HOUSE'S EXPENSIVE MEDICINE

The House health care reform bill is about more than covering the nation's uninsured, it's about remaking the nation's health care system, say observers...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

MAINE FINDS A HEALTH CARE FIX ELUSIVE

Many of the health care reform proposals circulating on Capitol Hill have already been tried in Maine and failed, say observers...

NEW YORK TIMES

HOW TO CONTROL RISING HEALTH CARE COSTS? INCREASE CONSUMER CHOICE

To lower the costs of health care, we should open up state insurance markets to competition, says Joseph Antos, the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute...

NEW YORK TIMES

Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

BAUCUS BILL DOES NOT BEND THE COST CURVE

The Baucus health care reform bill will not lower costs but instead add to the deficit, increase total health spending and add costs and deliver little savings to consumers, according to a report from the Lewin Group...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

THE COSTS OF DEFENSIVE MEDICINE

Doctors say the price of defensive medicine and malpractice insurance accounts for up to 10 percent of health care spending...

ASSOCIATED PRESS

THE PUBLIC'S BEST OPTION: LESS GOVERNMENT, MORE CHOICE

When compulsion takes the place of competition, the result is invariably less choice at higher cost, says columnist Jeff Jacoby...

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW

THE HEALTH CARE DISASTER IN CANADA

We cannot cover 36 million new patients without more doctors and nurses, much less with the declining census of medical professionals the Canadian experience points to, say columnists Dick Morris and Eileen McGann...

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW

THE COMING SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS

Our aging population is challenge enough. Try to get an appointment after health care reform, says Dr. Herbert Pardes, president and CEO of New York Presbyterian Hospital...

WALL STREET JOURNAL