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Consumer-Driven HealthCare vs Third Party Payer

A reporter who is new to the health care wars contacted me…

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Reasons to Reform Medicaid

Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) have produced ten. Here…

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Reasons to Reform Medicaid

Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) have produced ten. Here…

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Complex Systems, Part II

In my last Health Alert, I identified some characteristics of complex systems.…

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Price Controls Can Be Deadly

A 2003 law fixes the price Medicare will pay for injected drugs…

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Obama’s Opportunity for the “Super Committee”

Only three weeks remain before the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction,…

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The Drug Companies Will Be Next

If ObamaCare succeeds in cutting doctor and hospital payments as planned, drug…

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Marriage Penalties in ObamaCare

Health insurance premium credits in the new law are linked not directly…

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Michael Tanner: Despite Flaws, We’re No. 1

When Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi needed heart surgery, he didn’t go…

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Nearly One-Third of All Workers Now in Consumer-Driven Health Plans

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently released its annual survey of employer health…

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