Health Policy Digest - May 19, 2009

May 19, 2009

DOES THE UNITED STATES SPEND MORE ON HEALTH CARE THAN OTHER COUNTRIES?

Spending totals aside, the United States has been neither worse nor better than the rest of the developed world at controlling the growth in health care spending, says John C. Goodman, President and CEO of the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

HOW OBAMACARE WILL AFFECT YOUR DOCTOR

President Obama's plan for a centrally managed government insurance program will redistribute even more income away from lower-paid primary care providers and misalign doctors' financial incentives, says Dr. Scott Gottlieb...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

THE "PUBLIC OPTION"

Democrats know that any policy guardrails built into health care reform this year can be dismantled once the basic public option architecture is in place, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

THIS HEALTH CARE "REFORM" WILL KILL THOUSANDS

Great Britain's National Institute for Clinical Excellence has cost lives and kept the country in a kind of medical time warp, says Karol Sikora, a practicing oncologist, professor of cancer medicine at Imperial College School of Medicine, London, and former head of cancer control at the World Health Organization...

NEW HAMPSHIRE UNION LEADER

THE FOLLY OF HEALTH INSURANCE MANDATES

Rather than make coverage affordable, mandates drive up the cost of health insurance for most applicants, says Devon Herrick, a senior fellow with the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

THE DEATH OF AMERICAN HEALTH CARE

The only way to reduce health costs is to ration care, thereby destroying our system, say Dick Morris, an adviser to Bill Clinton for 20 years, and Eileen McGann, an attorney and consultant...

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW