I am in Sundance, Utah, today attending a meeting of the Health Sector Assembly, so we thought we would use this issue of Health Policy Matters to send you a few of the many op-eds we have written for outlets around the country recently, along with a link to a terrific commentary in yesterday's Wall Street Journal by Scott Gottlieb and Tom Miller of AEI. They write about actions the states can … [Read more...] about Reporting from Sundance
How Much Is Two More Years of Life Worth?
Heart disease is our nation's leading cause of death, killing more than 600,000 people last year, but modern medical technologies are helping to save thousands of these lives and will save even more if research can continue. Electric paddles, known as automated external defibrillators (AEDs), are used to awaken stopped hearts. You may have noticed brightly colored boxes containing AEDs in … [Read more...] about How Much Is Two More Years of Life Worth?
The AARP’s Misleading Drug Study
The AARP is continuing to mislead seniors with another in its series of distorted studies. In the latest example, the seniors’ lobby examined a select group of popular pharmaceuticals and found that prices increased much faster than general inflation last year, rising 8.3 percent. AARP officials were quick to use the results to denounce the drug industry. But the study doesn’t tell the whole … [Read more...] about The AARP’s Misleading Drug Study
Health Reform: Taking Our Freedom Back!
Click here to download Grace-Marie Turner's PowerPoint presentation from the Virginia Tea Party Convention. … [Read more...] about Health Reform: Taking Our Freedom Back!
A Strong Dose of Hubris
The Food and Drug Administration recently came close to taking away hope for thousands of terminally ill women. But at the last minute, the agency announced it was postponing until December whether to revoke approval of Avastin for advanced-stage breast cancer treatment.The fact that the FDA may cut off patient access to a popular and effective medicine is a sign of things to come. New … [Read more...] about A Strong Dose of Hubris
Tip of the Iceberg
ObamaCare's imprudence becomes more evident every day, most recently with the announcement that the administration was forced to waive one of its onerous new regulations so that up to a million workers don't lose their health insurance. Those of us who understood the economic disincentives that the health overhaul law set up warned of the dislocations it would create. And while we are glad these … [Read more...] about Tip of the Iceberg
Judge Makes Wrong Obamacare Decision
A federal judge in Michigan Thursday ruled that the health-overhaul law is constitutional, dismissing a suit brought by the Thomas More Law Center, which has vowed to appeal. Judge George C. Steeh of Federal District Court in Detroit, who was appointed by former President Clinton, decided the individual mandate is needed to compel Americans to obtain health insurance. He based his decision on the … [Read more...] about Judge Makes Wrong Obamacare Decision
Opening statement and remarks at Benjamin Rush Society Debate
Is health care a right? We have decided in this affluent, civilized country that everyone is going to have access to health care when they are in need. EMTALA (the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1986) assures that. The United States is not Calcutta where Mother Teresa literally had to rescue people who were bleeding in the streets (even though many Europeans who … [Read more...] about Opening statement and remarks at Benjamin Rush Society Debate