Research/Policy Issues
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Health Policy Digest - April 29, 2008
April 29, 2008
DO WE NEED INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE MANDATES?
From an individual's point of view, a health insurance mandate is a tax, say Linda Gorman and R. Allan Jensen...
NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS
Apparently, Democrats like affordable health care only if you're willing to get insurance through the government, say observers...
WALL STREET JOURNAL
LIFE EXPECTANCY IS DECLINING IN SOME POCKETS OF THE COUNTRY
Although life spans have generally increased since 1961, they began to level off or even decline in the 1980s for 4 percent of men and 19 percent of women, according to study...
PLOS/NEW YORK TIMES
The main driver of "mortality inequality" in the '80s and '90s was the rise in diseases springing from personal behavior, say observers...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY/UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON/INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
WOULD UNIVERSAL COVERAGE LENGTHEN LIFE EXPECTANCIES?
Universal health insurance is no panacea for falling life expectancies, say researchers...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY/UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON/WALL STREET JOURNAL
LESSONS FROM SWEDEN'S UNIVERSAL HEALTH SYSTEM
It has been estimated that a Swedish-style single health insurance system in America would cost the median-income household some $17,200 per year in health care taxes...
HILL CITY SKUNKWORKS/JOURNAL OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS