Research/Policy Issues
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Health Policy Digest - September 2, 2008
September 02, 2008
To reform health care, we should make it more affordable and give Americans more choice, says Jay Khosla, Health Policy Advisor for John McCain 2008...
WALL STREET JOURNAL
UNINSURED TO SPEND $30 BILLION, STUDY SAYS
Medicaid and Medicare pays 75 percent, or $42.9 billion, of the amount uninsured patients can't pay...
WALL STREET JOURNAL
MAINE RESIDENTS ANGERED BY EXPANSION OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM
"Free" universal health care has cost the Maine's taxpayers nearly $164 million in the four years since its inception...
EMAXHEALTH.COM
INDIA'S POOR GET HEALTH CARE IN A CARD
A new government credit plan gives India's neediest families the funding for medical treatment -- and a tool for charging it, say observers...
WALL STREET JOURNAL
About 32 million people, or 70 percent of the uninsured, could easily obtain coverage but have chosen to forgo insurance, says Devon Herrick, a health economist...
NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS/U.S. CENSUS BUREAU
WE NEED A NATIONAL MARKET FOR HEALTH INSURANCE
The complex problems in our health sector are best cured by a bigger dose of market competition, not more government intervention, says Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute...
WALL STREET JOURNAL/U.S. CENSUS BUREAU