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Analysis and Commentary

Is the Swiss Health Care System a Good Model for US?

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, October 4, 2009

The Swiss health care system has several important properties that I (and many others) have been advocating should be incorporated into any reform of the US health care system...

Analysis and Commentary

A tax by many other names

by Henry I. Millervia Orange County Register
Friday, October 2, 2009

President Barack Obama, appearing recently on ABC-TV's "This Week," made what may be the most revealing statements of his tenure...

Analysis and Commentary

Examining price of compromise

by Tibor R. Machanvia Freedom Communications
Thursday, October 1, 2009

Politics is sometimes said to be the art of compromise and this rings true enough, given the messiness of contemporary politics...

In the News

Barbara Kay, The case for the (almost) status quo in American health care

with Scott W. Atlasvia National Post (Canada)
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The debate over the Obama drive to universalize heath care along Canadian Medicare lines has polarized opinion...

Analysis and Commentary

Obama’s Medicare Disadvantage

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Forbes
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Medicare Advantage is a recently instituted federal program that allows individuals eligible for Medicare to opt to take their coverage from a private carrier, such as a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) of Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)...

In the News

Infantalizing US

with Thomas Sowellvia Cafe Hayek
Friday, September 25, 2009

I’ve long believed — for reasons very similar to, but less refined than, those offered by my colleague Bryan Caplan — that the modern state brings out the children in us...

Analysis and Commentary

Doubling Down on a Flawed Insurance Model

by John F. Cogan, Daniel P. Kesslervia Wall Street Journal
Friday, September 25, 2009

“What this plan will do is make the insurance you have work better for you....And here’s what you need to know, I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits—either now or in the future. Period.”...

Analysis and Commentary

Health care debate about liberty versus equality

by David Davenportvia San Francisco Examiner
Thursday, September 24, 2009

As the war over health care comes into sharper relief, it is apparent that the real debate is about something very fundamental in American politics...

Analysis and Commentary

Data on Canadian Medical Care

by David R. Hendersonvia EconLog
Thursday, September 24, 2009

My wife had breast cancer in 1986 and is an active consumer of information about breast cancer...

Analysis and Commentary

The Congressional Seizure Of Private Health Care Plans

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Forbes
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The current incoherent struggle over health care reform is fast coming to a head...

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Health Care Policy Working Group


The Working Group on Health Care Policy devises public policies that enable more Americans to get better value for their health care dollar and foster appropriate innovations that will extend and improve life.