Bob Moffit of The Heritage Foundation, Joe Antos of the American Enterprise Institute, and I have been meeting individually with several dozen members of Congress over the last few weeks to discuss upcoming action on Medicare and prescription drugs. Members are intensely focused on these issues, which are expected to dominate the debate in both houses of Congress next month. We have stressed … [Read more...] about A United Front
Can the NHS Cope With an Ageing Population?
A United Front
Bob Moffit of The Heritage Foundation, Joe Antos of the American Enterprise Institute, and I have been meeting individually with several dozen members of Congress over the last few weeks to discuss upcoming action on Medicare and prescription drugs. Members are intensely focused on these issues, which are expected to dominate the debate in both houses of Congress next month. We have stressed … [Read more...] about A United Front
Urban Institute Examines SCHIP
IN THIS ISSUE: ? Join Health Benefits Reform Discussion List ? Keeping Government Out of Benefits Mandates ? Tax Credits Debated in Florida ? Losing the War on Health Costs ? Unions to Resist Cost-Sharing ? Taxpayers to Subsidize Big Business Benefits? ? Urban Institute Examines SCHIP Join Health Benefits Reform Discussion List If you want to drill down deeper into the issues we … [Read more...] about Urban Institute Examines SCHIP
Letter to the Editor of Businessweek
Howard Gleckman wrote a column (May 19, 2003) celebrating the new "third way" that Democrats have found in health care reform -- mandating employer-sponsored coverage. At the same time, he dismisses individual coverage as "the darling of conservatives." However Mr. Gleckman chooses to characterize these ideas, the fact is that employer-sponsored coverage is a throw-back to the industrial … [Read more...] about Letter to the Editor of Businessweek
States Preparing for Health Tax Credits
The American Enterprise Institute held a forum today to discuss the specifics in the implementation of the tax credits contained in the Trade Act of 2002. The Trade Act would give trade-related displaced workers and certain Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation recipients a tax credit worth 65% of the cost of qualified private health insurance. Ruben King-Shaw of the U.S. Department of Treasury … [Read more...] about States Preparing for Health Tax Credits
Urban Institute Examines SCHIP
IN THIS ISSUE: ? Join Health Benefits Reform Discussion List ? Keeping Government Out of Benefits Mandates ? Tax Credits Debated in Florida ? Losing the War on Health Costs ? Unions to Resist Cost-Sharing ? Taxpayers to Subsidize Big Business Benefits? ? Urban Institute Examines SCHIP Join Health Benefits Reform Discussion List If you want to drill down deeper into the … [Read more...] about Urban Institute Examines SCHIP
Letter to the Editor of Businessweek
Howard Gleckman wrote a column (May 19, 2003) celebrating the new "third way" that Democrats have found in health care reform -- mandating employer-sponsored coverage. At the same time, he dismisses individual coverage as "the darling of conservatives." However Mr. Gleckman chooses to characterize these ideas, the fact is that employer-sponsored coverage is a throw-back to the industrial … [Read more...] about Letter to the Editor of Businessweek