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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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See all 17 articles and books »

• Hoover Press: Health Reform without Side Effects: Making Markets Work for Individual Health Insurance, by Mark V. Pauly (March 3, 2010)
  by Hoover Institution
  Does the U.S. health care system need to be completely overhauled as the current administration proposes?
• Politics vs. progress: Scrap Obamacare; tackle health reform in bite-size chunks (March 1, 2010)
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  this article mentions Gary S. Becker
  "I hope this isn't just political theater, where we're just playing to the cameras," President Barack Obama said as he opened his health care summit Thursday. . . .
• 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. . . .
• 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...
• '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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• The Impact of Cogan, Hubbard, Kessler Reforms on Health Care Utilization and Federal Revenues by John Cogan, Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel Kessler (February 24, 2010)
  by Hoover Institution
  This paper provides a brief summary of the impact on health care utilization and federal revenues of three policy changes: making all purchases of health services tax deductible, reforming insurance regulation, and reforming medical malpractice liability laws. All numbers below are on an annual basis using 2008 values.
• 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. . . .
• Soft Despotism with Paul Rahe: Chapter 1 of 5 (November 23, 2009)
  Uncommon Knowledge
  by Peter M. Robinson
  Paul Rahe defends his position that President Obama’s health-care proposals “presuppose the administrative state’s assuming a power over our lives that is nothing less than tyrannical.” . . .
• Thomas Sowell Interview: Politics vs. Economics in the Health Care Debate (November 2, 2009)
  Investor's Business Daily
  interview with featured guest Thomas Sowell
  IBD Associate Editor Terry Jones interviews Dr. Thomas Sowell...
• The Real Healthcare Problem Is Cost (October 27, 2009)
  townhall.com
  by David Davenport
  this podcast mentions John F. Cogan
  President Obama has declared that the problem with healthcare is access...

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See all 3 classics »

• 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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