Health Policy Digest - March 17, 2009

March 17, 2009

VICTIMS OF SOCIALISM

Great Britain's national health care system denies cancer patients drugs that would extend their lives because the medication is considered too expensive...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

WHAT BIG MISTAKE ARE WE MAKING?

We are making a very big mistake believing we can control health care costs without having anyone choose between health care and other uses of money, says John C. Goodman, President and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

NATIONAL JOURNAL

SHOCKER! UNINSURED NOT JAMMING EMERGENCY ROOMS

It's not the uninsured who burden America's emergency rooms so much as it is people who are carrying government insurance policies, says Devon Herrick, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

WORLD NET DAILY

THE WRONG ANSWER TO HIGH DRUG PRICES

Drug rationing hurts patients and discourages innovation, say researchers...

FRASER INSTITUTE

ALLOWING CONSUMERS TO "SHOP AROUND" FOR HEALTH CARE

If consumers were allowed to shop around for medical care, hospitals and doctors would be forced to provide a good price, good service and the best value to attract customers, says Devon Herrick, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

Q1 PUBLISHING/STOCKHOUSE.COM

HAVE THE BENEFITS OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS BEEN OVERSTATED?

The country needs President Obama to apply real scientific rigor to fix our health care system rather than rely on elegant exercises in wishful thinking, say Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband, faculty members of Harvard Medical School...

KAISERNETWORK.ORG/WALL STREET JOURNAL