Hoover Institution at Stanford University

Health Care

President Obama, having established that providing health care to all Americans is of the highest priority on his domestic policy agenda, has become actively involved in the ongoing debate. Hoover fellows have been assessing the costs of health care and the implications of providing universal health insurance to Americans for some time. This site provides a compilation of recent articles and commentary by Hoover fellows on, among other things, efficient health care policy, the provision of health care, the public option, and the economics of health care.

  • Added on March 12, 2010 at 4:02AM PST
    Confusing Health Care and Health Insurance (March 12, 2010)
    EconLog
    by David R. Henderson
    President Obama Walks Into His Own Trap. . . .
  • Added on March 9, 2010 at 4:19AM PST
    Krugman Got It Wrong (March 9, 2010)
    Forbes
    by Richard A. Epstein
    Republicans aren't off base about unemployment, health care or the estate tax. . . .
  • Added on March 8, 2010 at 4:34AM PST
    Getting Out of Medicine (March 8, 2010)
    Creators Syndicate
    by Thomas Sowell
    We can burden doctors with red-tape hassles, but we can’t make doctors put up with them. . . .
Op-eds and Blogs

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  • Confusing Health Care and Health Insurance (March 12, 2010)
    EconLog
    by David R. Henderson
    President Obama Walks Into His Own Trap. . . .
  • Krugman Got It Wrong (March 9, 2010)
    Forbes
    by Richard A. Epstein
    Republicans aren't off base about unemployment, health care or the estate tax. . . .
  • The Filibuster and Supermajorities (March 8, 2010)
    Becker-Posner Blog
    by Gary S. Becker
    Although the American Constitution does not provide for the filibuster, the founders of this country were very much concerned about protecting the rights of minorities . . . .
  • Getting Out of Medicine (March 8, 2010)
    Creators Syndicate
    by Thomas Sowell
    We can burden doctors with red-tape hassles, but we can’t make doctors put up with them. . . .
  • John Goodman on ObamaCare (March 4, 2010)
    EconLog
    by David R. Henderson
    John Goodman writes: The two most serious defects of ObamaCare were never discussed at the Health Care Summit or in the President's speech this afternoon. . . .

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Articles and Books

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Other

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Classics

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  • Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System (November 25, 2005)
    by John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler
    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.
  • A HEALTHY DEBATE: Health Care Reform (February 1, 2005)
    with guests John F. Cogan and Alain Enthoven
    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.
  • How to Cure Health Care (July 30, 2001)
    by Milton Friedman
    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.

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