President Bush has offered a number of new health policy initiatives designed around four goals: making health care more affordable, allowing health insurance to be more portable, making prices more transparent, and making the whole system more efficient. The goal is to strengthen and energize the private health sector to give people more control and choice in a competitive system. Health … [Read more...] about Strengthening the Free Market in the Health Sector
Archives for February 2006
Supercharged Incentives
The debate is engaged. President Bush, as anticipated, has offered a number of new health policy initiatives designed around four goals: affordability, portability, transparency, and efficiency. Health Savings Accounts are the centerpiece of his agenda, with supercharged tax breaks to encourage people to sign up. Some highlights: Premiums for HSA-compatible insurance would be tax deductible if … [Read more...] about Supercharged Incentives
Response to New York Times Article on Medicare Drug Spending
Dear Editor: Your Feb. 2 article, "Medicare Drug Spending Expected to Be Well Below Estimates," was a powerful rebuttal to critics who claim Part D's market-based approach is failing. As you note, "the intense competition among private insurers" has resulted in lower prices for both medicines and premiums. The drug benefit certainly stumbled out of the gates, … [Read more...] about Response to New York Times Article on Medicare Drug Spending
Response to New York Times Article on Medicare Drug Spending
Dear Editor: Your Feb. 2 article, "Medicare Drug Spending Expected to Be Well Below Estimates," was a powerful rebuttal to critics who claim Part D's market-based approach is failing. As you note, "the intense competition among private insurers" has resulted in lower prices for both medicines and premiums. The drug benefit certainly stumbled out of the gates, … [Read more...] about Response to New York Times Article on Medicare Drug Spending
More Choices, More Control
President Bush has responded to growing middle-class anxiety about the high cost of health insurance and to workers' fears that they will lose their health coverage if they lose their jobs. The president is offering new policy initiatives that would give people more control over their health spending and give them options to buy health insurance that is portable so they can keep it as they … [Read more...] about More Choices, More Control
More Choices, More Control
President Bush has responded to growing middle-class anxiety about the high cost of health insurance and to workers' fears that they will lose their health coverage if they lose their jobs. The president is offering new policy initiatives that would give people more control over their health spending and give them options to buy health insurance that is portable so they can keep it as they … [Read more...] about More Choices, More Control