Several key members of Congress and a number of influential organizations are working on initiatives that would reverse the alarming growth in the number of Americans without health insurance.House Majority Leader Dick Armey is leading the charge. He delivered a speech before the American Hospital Association recently in which he put himself squarely on...
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Plan Would Put Medicare Beneficiaries in Charge of Reform
Chairman John Breaux of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare has proposed a reform plan that would leverage the powerful forces of market competition and consumer choice to save the program. The proposal that Senator Breaux (D-LA) and co-chairman Bill Thomas (R-CA) are offering would give beneficiaries financial assistance that they...
Plan Would Put Medicare Beneficiaries in Charge of Reform
Chairman John Breaux of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare has proposed a reform plan that would leverage the powerful forces of market competition and consumer choice to save the program. The proposal that Senator Breaux (D-LA) and co-chairman Bill Thomas (R-CA) are offering would give beneficiaries financial assistance that they...
Uninsured Rates Rise Dramatically in States With Strictest Health Insurance Regulations
During the heated debate on health care reform several years ago, some states jumped ahead of the rest by aggressively regulating their health insurance markets to speed reform. The data are now in, and they show that these attempts have backfired by harming the very citizens they were designed to help. Between 1990 and...
Uninsured Rates Rise Dramatically in States With Strictest Health Insurance Regulations
During the heated debate on health care reform several years ago, some states jumped ahead of the rest by aggressively regulating their health insurance markets to speed reform. The data are now in, and they show that these attempts have backfired by harming the very citizens they were designed to help. Between 1990 and...
States Show the Folly of Regulating Health Care
The Washington Times, Opinion/Editorial The health care reform freight train is steaming through Congress once again, with members poised to vote on legislation imposing new regulations on America’s health-care industry. If the experience of the states is any indication, these regulations could backfire, harming the very citizens they were designed to help.Between 1990 and...