Articles By Author Grace-Marie Turner
Articles by Grace-Marie Turner
08/01/2009 12:00 AM
The first Democratic health care reform bill has come out of the Senate hopper in the form of a 615-page tome from Sen. Edward Kennedy’s (D-MA) Health, ...(read more)
07/31/2009 12:00 AM
With President Barack Obama’s encouragement, congressional leaders are charging ahead to reshape America’s health care sector. They often cite ...(read more)
07/01/2009 12:00 AM
The White House and its allies cheered when President Barack Obama announced six health care groups had pledged to reduce the growth of health spending ...(read more)
06/01/2009 12:00 AM
The Obama administration is now open to taxing health care benefits. Forget the incessant 2008 Obama campaign ads; this is 2009, and they are searching ...(read more)
05/01/2009 12:00 AM
The White House Summit on Health Care Reform, held in early March, showed how much needs to be done to bring some reality to the health care reform debate.Both ...(read more)
03/01/2009 12:00 AM
Few issues generate more political emotion than the need to provide health insurance for children.It is much less expensive to cover children than adults, ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
Health care is being teed up for early action in this legislative year, with veterans of the 1994 Clinton health care reform effort taking steps to avoid ...(read more)
01/01/2009 12:00 AM
Hawaii just had a vivid lesson in health care economics, learning that if you offer people insurance for free—surprise, surprise—they’ll ...(read more)
12/01/2008 12:00 AM
Massachusetts has won another round in its ongoing effort to force taxpayers across the country to help fund its experiment in so-called universal health ...(read more)
11/01/2008 12:00 AM
Much to most people’s surprise, the U.S. Census Bureau reported in late August the number of people in the United States with health insurance increased ...(read more)
09/01/2008 12:00 AM
In late July, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) announced a plan he hopes will help businesses be able to afford health ...(read more)
08/01/2008 12:00 AM
In late June, key members of Congress got another wake-up call about the serious threat rising government health spending poses to the future of our health ...(read more)
07/01/2008 12:00 AM
Interest in the Massachusetts health reform plan remains high, as evidenced by the sellout crowd at a recent forum on Capitol Hill sponsored by the Alliance ...(read more)
07/01/2008 12:00 AM
Consumers, not just in the United States but in all developed countries, are demanding a much greater role in decisions involving their health care. People ...(read more)
06/01/2008 12:00 AM
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) has been boasting his state's health reform initiative has reduced the number of uninsured by half, with nearly 300,000 ...(read more)
06/01/2008 12:00 AM
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) has used free-market thinking and a healthy dose of individual responsibility to create an innovative program to help uninsured ...(read more)
05/01/2008 12:00 AM
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has been a stalwart defender of health freedom. But its recent association with two activist liberal ...(read more)
03/01/2008 12:00 AM
As the presidential campaign heats up, we certainly can anticipate a hot political debate over the future direction of our health care sector. I hope this ...(read more)
02/01/2008 12:00 AM
A heated debate is taking place in the Democratic presidential primary between U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Barack Obama (D-IL) over whether the ...(read more)
01/01/2008 12:00 AM
In early November, Oregon voters provided an unusual opportunity to find out what voters think about a legislative proposal being considered in Congress.
When ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
This autumn in Rome, I debated Italian politicians on national radio, tried to explain our health system to government and industry leaders in Italy, and ...(read more)
10/01/2007 12:00 AM
In early September, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said he wants to make preventive care mandatory in his proposed universal health insurance ...(read more)
08/01/2007 12:00 AM
On June 14, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards announced more details of his plan to guarantee universal health coverage on the national level.
What ...(read more)
07/01/2007 12:00 AM
The U.S. Senate in early May approved, by a 93-1 vote, legislation that, among other things, would give the pharmaceutical and medical device industries ...(read more)
06/01/2007 12:00 AM
The U.S. Census Bureau reported in late March that more Americans have health insurance than it had previously reported. It says about 1.8 million more ...(read more)
