Health Care

Miscellaneous items by date

• 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...
• Health-Care Reform with Brady & Kessler: Chapter 5 of 5 (October 16, 2009)
  Uncommon Knowledge
  by Peter M. Robinson
  interview with featured guests David Brady and Daniel P. Kessler
  David Brady and Daniel Kessler discuss the enigma that is our chief executive...
• Health-Care Reform with Brady & Kessler: Chapter 4 of 5 (October 15, 2009)
  Uncommon Knowledge
  by Peter M. Robinson
  interview with featured guests David Brady and Daniel P. Kessler
  David Brady and Daniel Kessler outline their own proposals for health reform...
• Health-Care Reform with Brady & Kessler: Chapter 3 of 5 (October 14, 2009)
  Uncommon Knowledge
  by Peter M. Robinson
  interview with featured guests David Brady and Daniel P. Kessler
  David Brady and Daniel Kessler contrast the politics and policies of health-care reform...
• Health-Care Reform with Brady & Kessler: Chapter 2 of 5 (October 13, 2009)
  Uncommon Knowledge
  by Peter M. Robinson
  interview with featured guests David Brady and Daniel P. Kessler
  President Clinton couldn’t push through sweeping health-care reform, so why does President Obama think he can?...
• Health-Care Reform with Brady & Kessler: Chapter 1 of 5 (October 12, 2009)
  Uncommon Knowledge
  by Peter M. Robinson
  interview with featured guests David Brady and Daniel P. Kessler
  Stanford professors David Brady and Daniel Kessler compare the politics of Clintoncare in 1993 to the politics of Obamacare today...
• Davenport: Explaining the Real Health Care Debate (October 12, 2009)
  townhall.com
  by David Davenport
  One reason the health care debate is so heated is because it so clearly reveals the president's political philosophy...
• What the U.S. Can Learn From Health Care Abroad (Transcript) (October 9, 2009)
  News Hour
  interview with featured guest Scott W. Atlas
  JIM LEHRER: And now, Gwen Ifill looks at how the U.S. health care system compares to the Netherlands and those of other countries...
• What the U.S. Can Learn From Health Care Abroad (October 8, 2009)
  News Hour
  interview with featured guest Scott W. Atlas
  Gwen Ifill speaks with health experts about wha the United States can learn from health care systems throughout the world...
• Clinton talks health care while in the Bay Area (October 7, 2009)
  ABC 7 News (CA)
  this video includes quotes from Scott W. Atlas
  The last president who tried to get some sort of health care reform passed is in the Bay Area...
• Richard Epstein: Breaking Down Healthcare Reform (October 6, 2009)
  ForaTv
  by Richard A. Epstein
  Richard Epstein, professor of law at The University of Chicago, discusses the current proposal for healthcare reform...
• Stanford doctor critiques Democrats’ health reform proposals (September 17, 2009)
  Scott Atlas, MD, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses ideas to improve our health care system without positioning government as the dominant insurer.
• Legal issues concerning health care reform (September 17, 2009)
  Richard A. Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the pro, cons, and legal issues of health care reform in a lecture at Columbia Law School.
• Red Ink Watch: How Bad Is the Deficit? (August 26, 2009)
  Fox Business News
  interview with featured guest John B. Taylor
  Hoover Institutions John Taylor on why the deficit poses a systemic risk...
• Brady on health care reform, public opinion, and party politics (August 24, 2009)
  David Brady, the deputy director and the Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses American public opinion on changing the health care system with Hoover research fellow Russell Roberts.
• Tara Servatius Show: Scott Atlas (August 18, 2009)
  Tara Servatius Show (WBT NC)
  interview with featured guest Scott W. Atlas
  Scott Atlas, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, lists 10 facts of comparison to remember as nationalization advocates claim massive health disasters as fact...
• Scott Atlas is interviewed about health care on the Tara Servatius Show (August 11, 2009)
  Hoover senior fellow Scott Atlas gives ten facts showing why America’s health-care system is in better condition than you might suppose.
• 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.