The race has begun over who can achieve universal health care first: Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, a 2008 Democratic presidential candidate, told a FamiliesUSA conference this week that the country must achieve universal health care by 2012. Former President Bill Clinton told a closed meeting of supporters recently that his wife will stress health care in her presidential campaign, rejecting … [Read more...] about Universal Health Care: Proceed with caution
The Facts: Medicare Part D and Prescription Drug Prices
Price negotiation by competing private plans offering Medicare drug coverage is producing high satisfaction rates among seniors at a much lower cost than if the government had provided a traditional plan. Congress should not impose new government controls that could reduce seniors' access to needed drugs. Why shouldn't the government negotiate prices and use its buying power to get drug costs … [Read more...] about The Facts: Medicare Part D and Prescription Drug Prices
The Facts: Medicare Part D and Prescription Drug Prices
Price negotiation by competing private plans offering Medicare drug coverage is producing high satisfaction rates among seniors at a much lower cost than if the government had provided a traditional plan. Congress should not impose new government controls that could reduce seniors' access to needed drugs. Why shouldn't the government negotiate prices and use its buying power to get drug costs … [Read more...] about The Facts: Medicare Part D and Prescription Drug Prices
Change is Inevitable
Responses to President Bush's new health initiative have filled newspapers and the airwaves since last week, with commentators and analysts trying to understand this new idea and figure out what it would mean. While opinion leaders from the left and right have praised Mr. Bush for exposing the fundamental flaws in how the tax code treats health insurance, response has been chilly among some with a … [Read more...] about Change is Inevitable
Competition Works
Appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country, including The Vindicator (OH), The Charleston Gazette (WV), Sunday Gazette-Mail (WV), The Kansas City Star (MO), and The Charlotte Observer (NC). Competition works in health care, and consumers are starting to exercise their buying power to get better choices and bring prices down. For example, costs for the new Medicare drug benefit are lower … [Read more...] about Competition Works
Competition Works
Appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country, including The Vindicator (OH), The Charleston Gazette (WV), Sunday Gazette-Mail (WV), The Kansas City Star (MO), and The Charlotte Observer (NC). Competition works in health care, and consumers are starting to exercise their buying power to get better choices and bring prices down. For example, costs for the new Medicare drug benefit are lower … [Read more...] about Competition Works
Bold New Policy
Before treating a patient, a physician starts with a good diagnosis. And that's just what President Bush has done with his health reform proposals. Rather than treating symptoms, he has offered a remedy for a root cause of the health sector's high costs and consequent high uninsured rates. "Changing the tax code is a vital and necessary step to making healthcare affordable for more Americans," Mr. … [Read more...] about Bold New Policy
Response to President Bush's Bold Health Reform Proposal
The president's proposal, announced in Tuesday's State of the Union Address, is a win-win-win-win: It is a win for the uninsured because it offers millions more Americans the chance to buy health insurance with the tax savings they will receive from this generous new standard deduction. Taxpayers win because 80 percent of them will … [Read more...] about Response to President Bush's Bold Health Reform Proposal