Question for Ms. Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute, from the Honorable Adrian Smith, following the House Budget Committee Hearing on “The Tax Code and Health Insurance”, October 18, 2007.As we look at ways to use the tax code to reduce the number of uninsured, we have seen different proposals including either tax credits or tax deductions to individuals and families for health … [Read more...] about The Tax Treatment of Health Insurance: Response to Oct. 18 House Budget Committee Hearing
What happened to your pay raise?
Investor’s Business Daily yesterday published an article I wrote for them about how rising health costs are gobbling up the take-home pay of workers who have job-based health insurance. This helps explain why people feel they are working harder and harder and just can’t seem to get ahead. A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that only one in five Americans feels they are … [Read more...] about What happened to your pay raise?
A Professor's Guide: Free-Market Health Policy
These publications can provide a guide for educators teaching courses on health policy to help students better understand consumer-directed health care and free-market ideas in health policy. Health, Technology, and the Common Good Grace-Marie Turner September, 2007 www.galen.org/fileuploads/HTC.pdf The Tax Code and Health Insurance Coverage Grace-Marie Turner October 18, 2007 … [Read more...] about A Professor's Guide: Free-Market Health Policy
Is Your Medicare Drug Plan Naughty or Nice?
The holidays are here again. That means it’s time for decorations, gifts, family, friends, and food. But during the celebrations, seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D should carve out some time to consider how their current prescription drug plan is working. At the end of each year, from Nov. 15 through Dec. 31, Medicare provides seniors with an open enrollment period and an opportunity … [Read more...] about Is Your Medicare Drug Plan Naughty or Nice?
A Professor’s Guide: Free-Market Health Policy
These publications can provide a guide for educators teaching courses on health policy to help students better understand consumer-directed health care and free-market ideas in health policy. Health, Technology, and the Common Good Grace-Marie Turner September, 2007 www.galen.org/fileuploads/HTC.pdf The Tax Code and Health Insurance Coverage Grace-Marie Turner October 18, 2007 … [Read more...] about A Professor’s Guide: Free-Market Health Policy
The Market Is the Answer
Sen. Hillary Clinton's new health reform proposal promises more choice, lower costs and no new government bureaucracies. But the rhetoric doesn't match the reality.The 10-page outline the New York Democrat released Monday is short on the sort of details that filled the 1,342-page bill she developed 14 years ago, but like that earlier proposal, this also provides countless opportunities for … [Read more...] about The Market Is the Answer
Statement by Grace-Marie Turner in response to the release of “The American Health Choices Plan” by Sen. Hillary Clinton
Sen. Clinton’s new health reform plan incorporates many of the ideas being explored by the states today, and like the plan Mrs. Clinton offered 14 years ago, it still involves a heavy dose of government control. She would achieve universal health coverage by requiring everyone in America to have health insurance, and she would require businesses to pay a significant share of the … [Read more...] about Statement by Grace-Marie Turner in response to the release of “The American Health Choices Plan” by Sen. Hillary Clinton
Look at Health Data, Not Propaganda
America's health care woes all could be solved with a government-run universal-coverage system. Or so says Michael Moore in his new film, Sicko, which claims that even Cuba's health care system is superior to ours.Although it's easy to dismiss Mr. Moore as a radical propagandist, his message is gaining traction in the policy community. The Commonwealth Fund, a prominent health policy … [Read more...] about Look at Health Data, Not Propaganda