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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 November 18, 2009 at 4:41AM PST
Economists’ Letter to Obama on Health Care Reform (November 18, 2009)
this blog mentions
John Shoven
This afternoon a group of 23 prominent economists — including two Nobel laureates as well as previous members of both Democratic and Republican presidential administrations — sent a letter to President Obama about the priorities for health care reform. . . .
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Added on November 17, 2009 at 5:14AM PST
Should The Government Fund Abortions? (November 17, 2009)
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Richard A. Epstein
The now out-of-control debate about major health care reform has hit yet another speed bump over whether participants in the subsidized public option may receive coverage for abortions. . . .
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Added on November 16, 2009 at 6:51AM PST
Stop The (Health Reform) Juggernaut (November 16, 2009)
by
Henry I. Miller
The Pelosi bill will hurt not only drugmakers, but patients too. . . .
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Economists’ Letter to Obama on Health Care Reform (November 18, 2009)
this blog mentions
John Shoven
This afternoon a group of 23 prominent economists — including two Nobel laureates as well as previous members of both Democratic and Republican presidential administrations — sent a letter to President Obama about the priorities for health care reform. . . .
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Should The Government Fund Abortions? (November 17, 2009)
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Richard A. Epstein
The now out-of-control debate about major health care reform has hit yet another speed bump over whether participants in the subsidized public option may receive coverage for abortions. . . .
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Research gains at risk (November 16, 2009)
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Scott W. Atlas
As the world accelerates technology solutions for everything from education to commerce to environmental health to economic growth, our president is focused on government centralization and traveling back in time to "reform" American health care. . . .
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Stop The (Health Reform) Juggernaut (November 16, 2009)
by
Henry I. Miller
The Pelosi bill will hurt not only drugmakers, but patients too. . . .
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Shutting off the miracle-drug spigot (November 9, 2009)
by
Henry I. Miller
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right last week when she called her latest health-care-reform proposal a "his toric moment": After decades of life-saving and cost-cutting scientific innovations from drug and medical-device companies...
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Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments (November 4, 2009)
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)
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)
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)
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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Washington View: Medical malpractice also needs to be reformed (September 17, 2009)
this article features
Richard A. Epstein
When President Obama addressed Congress and the nation on the need for health care reform, he brushed off medical malpractice lawsuit abuse with a cursory acknowledgement of the problem...
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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System (November 25, 2005)
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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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