More Choices, Less Government Control
Health Care: John Kerry's first significant speech since he lost to President Bush in November was about medical services. From all indications, he learned nothing from his defeat.
Free trade tack for drug imports
A new report by the Department of Health and Human Services is unlikely to satisfy either proponents or opponents of importing drugs from Canada and other countries. The report says drugs can be imported safely, at a cost. At the same time, buyers of them can expect only modest savings.
Reforming the Health Care System
Reforming the Health Care System was held March 18, 2005 at Ball State University as part of a larger conference, Health by Design. Reforming the Health Care System featured a debate between Kenneth E. Thorpe, Ph.D. of Emory University and John C. Goodman, Ph.D. of the National Center for Policy Analysis. Their presentations were transcribed and are presented in this booklet. The speakers and publishers thank editor Richard D. Western, proofreader Diane Bast, and graphic designer Amy McIntyre for their work in pulling together this finished product.
The New New Deal
Social Security reform pits progressive Bush against reactionary Dems.
Importing drugs a flawed solution to rising costs
A deluge of recent news coveragehas very effectively shed light on the deep flaws in prescription drug importation as a solution to higher drug costs.
Uninsured throng drugstore when it offered drugs at cost, historic shop went high-volume
Six months ago, one of Texas' oldest drugstores operated much as it had for 146 years, drawing a small but loyal base of customers with perks like free home delivery, credit accounts based on trust and an old-fashioned cosmetics counter.
Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World
If you're looking for intellectual ammunition to refute the perennial myths about the triumph of socialized medicine in the rest of the developed world, this book is essential. It is an updated, expanded, well-referenced version of Twenty Myths About National Health Insurance, published in 1991 by the National Center for Policy Analysis.
Unneccessary Deaths: The Human and Financial Costs of Hospital Infections
Infections contracted in hospitals are the fourth largest killer in America. Every year in this country, two million patients contract infections in hospitals, and an estimated 103,000 die as a result, as many deaths as from AIDS, breast cancer, and auto accidents combined.
Ten Easy Health Reforms
While the idealists among us still hope for a major overhaul of our health care system, there are some minor reforms lawmakers could enact that would pay big dividends. Here are 10 suggestions along with the Web addresses of NCPA publications that discuss them in greater detail.
Health Care Tax Credits for the Uninsured
Support is growing for a proposed solution to the rising number of uninsured Americans: a health insurance tax credit. If properly designed and implemented, a tax credit would allow uninsured, low income individuals and families to purchase affordable, quality health insurance.
Carole Keeton Strayhorn
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Would Social Security Indexing and Personal Accounts be a Bad Deal?
The Bush Administration has suggested shifting the calculation of initial Social Security benefits from wages to prices as a way to control the program’s soaring costs.
Reform Calculations
The Bush administration has suggested shifting the calculation of initial Social Security benefits from wages to prices to reduce costs. Reporters and pundits flew into a tizzy as if this were breaking news. But the indexing proposal has been discussed publicly since it was developed three years ago.
STATE OF FEAR – OR SMEAR
Global warming is hot! – pun fully intended. Within the space of a year, a blockbuster action movie and now a sure-to-be best-selling novel have both focused on the perils and political intrigues surrounding the question of whether, or to what extent, humans are causing the planet to overheat with all manner of apocalyptic results.
America the "Stingy"? Hardly
The other day, a United Nations official accused the U.S. of being "stingy" in terms of aid to tsunami victims in South Asia.
After criticism from the State Department, the official clarified his position. Americans aren't being stingy in helping tsunami victims, only stingy in terms of overall foreign aid compared with other countries.