Health Policy Digest - August 04, 2009

August 04, 2009

STILL PACKING THEIR BAGS

Most reformers don't see medical travel as a solution to the affordability problem, but as a symptom of the U.S. health care system's uncontrolled costs, says Devon Herrick, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

MODERNHEALTHCARE.COM

LESSONS FROM MASSACHUSETTS

The Massachusetts health care reform has raised costs, not lowered them, says Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at the Heartland Institute...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

FANNIE MED?

A "public option" would reduce competition by driving lower-cost private health plans out of business, says policy analyst Michael Cannon...

CATO INSTITUTE

MEDICARE SPENDING VARIATION

If health care were practiced in all 50 states the way it is in the lowest-spending states, the potential savings across all populations is only about 5 percent, say economists Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving...

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE RESEARCH CENTER AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY/NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

FREEING OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Medicare should be willing to pay for innovative improvements that save taxpayers money, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow with the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

HEALTH REFORM AND CANCER

The British government-run health care system is infamous for denying state-of-the-art drugs to cancer patients, so why are we modeling our system on theirs, asks Myrna Ulfik, a New York writer?...

WALL STREET JOURNAL