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Health Care

July 16, 2010 | KQED

California Nurses Square Off with Whitman

About a thousand nurses and supporters marched today to the Atherton home of Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman...
May 12, 2010

Mark Pauly discusses health insurance reform

Health Reform without Side Effects

Mark Pauly, a member of Hoover’s Working Group on Health Care Policy, met with members of the Congressional Health Care Caucus to discuss how the individual private health insurance market can work to provide quality, affordable, health care insurance for Americans. Pauly also discussed his book Health Reform without Side Effects: Making Markets Work for Individual Health Insurance and participated in a lively question-and-answer session on health reform with caucus members.

April 30, 2010 | Townhall

Is Healthcare Reform Constitutional?

At least 20 states have gone to court arguing that the healthcare reform bill is unconstitutional. Unfortunately, like the pitch that isn’t a ball or strike ’til the umpire calls it, no law is legally unconstitutional...

April 19, 2010 | EconTalk

Munger on Love, Money, Profits, and Non-profits

Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the world of profit, money, love, gifts, and incentives.

April 7, 2010 | California Healthline

Fight Over Premium Hikes Just Beginning

Insurers' premiums played a key, if ironic, role in the waning moments of the national health reform debate. Outrage over Anthem Blue Cross's proposed double-digit hike for individual policyholders was one of the factors that helped congressional Democrats gain momentum to pass reform.

April 8, 2010 | Moneyweb (South Africa)

Obamacare's hidden costs are rapidly surfacing

Gary Becker says it fails to address any of the real problems and merely “adds taxation and regulation.

April 6, 2010 | FierceHealthcare

Health insurers sue Massachusetts over ‘premium rate caps’

Health insurance companies in Massachusetts are fighting back after the state's insurance commissioner last week rejected 235 of 274 proposed rate hikes, effectively implementing a premium rate cap.

March 31, 2010 | American Enterprise Institute

Book Release - Health Reform without Side Effects: Making Markets Work for Individual Health Insurance

The health care debate over the last year has included criticism of the practices of health insurance companies, particularly those selling policies to individuals. Is this criticism valid? . . . .

March 28, 2010 | Daily Bell (Switzerland)

Tibor Machan on the Myth of Medical Care Rights, the Media Frenzy and the Possibility of Backlash

The editors of The Daily Bell are pleased to present an interview with well-known libertarian philosopher Tibor R. Machan. . . .

March 17, 2010 | Fox News

Unconstitutional Health Care Solution?

Law professor breaks down the legality of Dems pushing through reform without a vote. . . .