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November 25, 2005

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

This book explains how several much-decried problems in the U.S. health system—glaring gaps in the quality and efficiency of care, high rates of uninsurance, and out-of-control costs—can be resolved by empowering patients.

February 1, 2005 | Recorded on February 1, 2005

A HEALTHY DEBATE: Health Care Reform

The United States leads the developed world in spending on health care, at nearly 15 percent of our GDP. But based on measures such as life expectancy at birth, Americans receive a lower level of care than do the citizens of many countries that spend less. What's wrong with health care in America? And how should we fix it? Peter Robinson speaks with John F. Cogan and Alain Enthoven.

July 30, 2001

How to Cure Health Care

The United States spends a mind-boggling percentage of its GDP on a health care system that virtually everyone agrees is a disaster. Is there any way out of this mess? There is—and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman has found it.