Ten GOP Health Ideas for Obama – The Wall Street Journal
NCPA President John C. Goodman and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich propose a ten-point plan for consumer driven health care reform.
The Politics of Estate Tax Reform
If it seems as if Congress has been wrangling over the estate tax for decades, that is because it has. Though majorities in both houses of Congress have supported repeal and the law has been changed frequently, the death tax just will not die. Why not? The short answer is: because politicians like seeing the tax languish on its deathbed.
GOP 'Roadmap' Summons Health Ideas of Debates Past – National Public Radio
John Goodman's work with HSA's is mentioned in a National Public Radio online story about alternative health care reform proposals.
U.S. Tops List for Health Care Spending – Health Care News
NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick joins Linda Gorman of the Independence Institute in explaining the problems with comparing U.S. health care spending to that in other countries.
The Hidden Cost of the "Doc Fix" – Townhall.com
Townhall.com quotes John Goodman on this updated report on the so-called "doc fix," which will provide a stopgap to Medicare payments that give doctors less than market value for their services.
10 Steps to Reform Insurance While Covering Chronic Conditions – HC Pro
John Goodman tells Health Leaders Media that the government should initiate "small scale reforms" to its healthcare insurance system to overcome potentially devastating obstacles in serving an aging and chronically ill baby-boomer population.
Can't Afford Health Insurance? Here Are 5 Alternatives – Fox Business
On FOX Business News.com, NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick offers suggestions for alternative ways to cover for cover health costs.
Some words to the wise on our debt – The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News reports on the standing ovation response for former comptroller general David Walker at the NCPA Hatton W. Sumners Distinguished Lecture Series luncheon.
Biotech versus Precaution in Europe and America: Killing the Golden Goose
The human population is growing – especially in countries where people are already malnourished – and will probably plateau sometime this century between eight and nine billion people. With approximately six million square miles of land under cultivation, the world currently produces more than enough food to feed Earth's six billion people minimally adequate diets. However, as populations grow and developing countries strive for Western living standards, the world will need approximately three times more food than is currently produced.
How We Got Well
Welcome to Future World, where the average income is $100,000 a year and people need only a 20-hour work week to earn it. Since the present day, medical science has progressed even faster than income.