Health Policy Digest - August 18, 2009

August 18, 2009

MAN VS. MUTT

In Great Britain, dogs get better health care than humans; this could have a great impact on the health care debate in the United States, says Theodore Dalrymple, a British physician...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

OBAMA VS. MATHEMATICS

Health care plus entitlements plus higher taxes only on the "rich" equals disaster, say Jagadeesh Gokhale, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and Kent Smetters, a professor at the Wharton School...

NATIONAL REVIEW

GOVERNMENT MEDICINE SHOULD HORRIFY AMERICANS

Government medicine has been an excruciating disaster in the United Kingdom and Canada, says Deroy Murdock, a columnist and media fellow with the Hoover Institution...

REAL CLEAR POLITICS

OBAMA'S SENIOR MOMENT

Once health care is nationalized, or mostly nationalized, rationing care is inevitable, and those who have lived the longest will find their care the most restricted, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

TEXAS GOVERNOR SAYS TORT REFROM MUST BE PART OF HEALTH CARE REFORM

Instead of handing down "one size fits all" mandates, Washington should enable the states to set their own agendas when it comes to health care, says Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R)...

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

THE WHOLE FOODS ALTERNATIVE TO OBAMACARE

There are eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit, says John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc....

WALL STREET JOURNAL