Research/Policy Issues
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National Center for Policy Analysis
Health Policy Digest - March 18, 2008
March 18, 2008
MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: THE CASE FOR PROTECTING PATIENT CHOICE
Medicare's system of competing private plans has been a success, says Robert E. Moffit...
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Health care spending has been growing at an unsustainable pace in 9 of 10 Canadian provinces, say researchers...
FRASER INSTITUTE
WHY ARE CANADIANS STILL WAITING FOR HEALTH CARE?
Access to a waiting list is not the same as access to health care, says Beverly McLachlin...
FRASER INSTITUTE
Massachusetts' state health care reform initiative is nearly $150 million in the red, say observers...
GALEN INSTITUTE
The World Health Organization rankings are not an objective measure of the relative performance of national health care systems, says Glen Whitman...
CATO INSTITUTE/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
PAYING PHARMACISTS TO KEEP DIABETICS ON TRACK
A new program aimed at improving the health of diabetics on the front end is cutting the rate of expensive hospital procedures when diabetes is not controlled...
WALL STREET JOURNAL