A new cast of players in key posts in Congress and the incoming Bush administration presages a new approach to solving entrenched health reform problems in the new year. President-elect George W. Bush offered ideas during the campaign to energize the private health sector to solve problems that have eluded politicians and bureaucrats for decades. Unlike the Clinton-Gore administration's focus on … [Read more...] about A New Approach to Health Reform
A New Approach to Health Reform
A new cast of players in key posts in Congress and the incoming Bush administration presages a new approach to solving entrenched health reform problems in the new year. President-elect George W. Bush offered ideas during the campaign to energize the private health sector to solve problems that have eluded politicians and bureaucrats for decades. Unlike the Clinton-Gore administration's focus … [Read more...] about A New Approach to Health Reform
Drug Innovation Lives
The Washington Times Facing the November election, a bipartisan Congress in October passed a bad bill establishing a highly questionable drug-import scheme that ostensibly dealt with the "crisis" of high prescription-drug prices. President Clinton was only too happy to sign the legislation Oct. 28. What appeared to be a dubious claim in October was confirmed as such this week. On Tuesday, … [Read more...] about Drug Innovation Lives
Drug Innovation Lives
The Washington Times Facing the November election, a bipartisan Congress in October passed a bad bill establishing a highly questionable drug-import scheme that ostensibly dealt with the "crisis" of high prescription-drug prices. President Clinton was only too happy to sign the legislation Oct. 28. What appeared to be a dubious claim in October was confirmed as such this week. On … [Read more...] about Drug Innovation Lives
The Big Apple's Big Choice for Bigger Government
It's all come down to this. With less than a week before the year's hottest Senate race is decided, Hillary Clinton is asking the Big Apple to make a big choice in favor of bigger government. Yet New Yorkers seem remarkably skittish about saying yes to a massive increase in Washington spending and control in areas ranging from health care to retirement security. So despite Mrs. Clinton's … [Read more...] about The Big Apple's Big Choice for Bigger Government
The Big Apple’s Big Choice for Bigger Government
It's all come down to this. With less than a week before the year's hottest Senate race is decided, Hillary Clinton is asking the Big Apple to make a big choice in favor of bigger government. Yet New Yorkers seem remarkably skittish about saying yes to a massive increase in Washington spending and control in areas ranging from health care to retirement security. So despite Mrs. Clinton's … [Read more...] about The Big Apple’s Big Choice for Bigger Government
Taking A Courageous Stand On Drugs For Seniors
The Bridge ForumA Periodic look at issues in the US presidential race ALEXANDRIA, Va.--George W. Bush has taken a courageous, although politically risky, approach to providing a prescription drug benefit for Medicare. He acknowledges Medicare is in dire need of modernization, but instead of tacking an expensive, bureaucratic new program onto this creaky one, Gov. Bush's proposal would integrate a … [Read more...] about Taking A Courageous Stand On Drugs For Seniors
Who Has the Right Prescription for Medicare?
Paired commentaries by David Kendall of the Progressive Policy Institute and Grace-Marie Arnett of the Galen Institute, both Consensus Group members. View from David Kendall, Senior Fellow for Health Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute. Only Nixon could go to China because he was a Republican with anti-communist credentials. And only Democrats can reform Medicare because they created it. … [Read more...] about Who Has the Right Prescription for Medicare?