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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.
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Added on February 9, 2010 at 4:00AM PST
Adverse Selection on Purpose (February 9, 2010)
EconLog
by
David R. Henderson
In a post a few weeks ago, I stated that I had coined a term in 1994 to describe the effects of a ban on pre-existing conditions clauses in health insurance: adverse selection by law. . . .
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Added on February 4, 2010 at 5:47AM PST
What Obama Isn't Saying (February 4, 2010)
Weekly Standard
by
Harvey C. Mansfield
this op-ed mentions
James W. Ceaser
The apolitical politics of progressivism. . . .
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Added on January 29, 2010 at 6:57AM PST
People Are Watching (January 29, 2010)
townhall.com
by
David Davenport
One political myth is that people don’t really pay attention to politics until election time. . . .
See all 107 op-eds and blogs »
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Adverse Selection on Purpose (February 9, 2010)
EconLog
by
David R. Henderson
In a post a few weeks ago, I stated that I had coined a term in 1994 to describe the effects of a ban on pre-existing conditions clauses in health insurance: adverse selection by law. . . .
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What Obama Isn't Saying (February 4, 2010)
Weekly Standard
by
Harvey C. Mansfield
this op-ed mentions
James W. Ceaser
The apolitical politics of progressivism. . . .
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The Dead Duck Congress (January 26, 2010)
Weekly Standard
by
Tod Lindberg
With nothing to lose, will they go for broke? . . .
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Great Scott! (January 26, 2010)
Creators Syndicate
by
Thomas Sowell
Some of the most melancholy letters and e-mails that are sent to me are from people who lament that there is nothing they can do about the bad policies that they see ruining this country. . . .
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Fixing it later (January 22, 2010)
Cafe Hayek
by
Russell Roberts
Gail Collins and David Brooks discuss what Congress ought to do about health care. Gail Collins says: I only have one thought, which is that the Democrats should pass the health care bill now. . . .
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Go Quietly, Old People (January 14, 2010)
Cato Institute
by
David R. Henderson
Formany years,DanielCallahan, cofounder of the Hastings Center, has been writing about medical ethics and bioethics. . . .
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Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments (November 4, 2009)
Los Angeles Times
this article includes quotes from
Michael McConnell
Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses...
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'Cadillac' tax on health insurance worries unions (October 26, 2009)
Newsday
this article includes quotes from
Richard A. Epstein
Unions representing thousands of teachers and state and local government workers are bracing for the worst if Congress adopts a proposed "Cadillac" tax on health insurance...
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Stanford doctor critiques Democrats' health reform proposals (September 18, 2009)
Contra Costa Times
interview with featured guest
Scott W. Atlas
To broaden the health care reform debate, Bay Area News Group has run a series of Q&As in recent weeks with East Bay congressional representatives, all of whom are Democrats...
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Niall Ferguson: America the empire? (September 17, 2009)
Daily Item (PA)
this article features
Niall Ferguson
Like it or not, America is still very much in the empire-building business, even under President Obama, said controversial author and historian Niall Ferguson, about two hours before he was scheduled to speak Tuesday night at the Weis Center on the Bucknell campus...
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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.
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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.
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How to Cure Health Care (July 30, 2001)
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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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