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Health Care News
March 2003
03/2003 Scandlen at Large: Consumer Choice Matters
With this issue of Health Care News, I’m launching a new focus for this column on consumer choice matters. As the new director of the Galen Institute’s ... (read more)
With this issue of Health Care News, I’m launching a new focus for this column on consumer choice matters. As the new director of the Galen Institute’s ... (read more)
03/2003 State Update
Arizona * Colorado * Kentucky * Maryland Massachusetts * Michigan * Missouri * Nevada North Carolina * Pennsylvania * Tennessee * Vermont * West Virginia ARIZONA Drug ... (read more)
Arizona * Colorado * Kentucky * Maryland Massachusetts * Michigan * Missouri * Nevada North Carolina * Pennsylvania * Tennessee * Vermont * West Virginia ARIZONA Drug ... (read more)
03/2003 The Galen Report
Nobel laureate Milton Friedman has long been interested in health policy and the importance of reforms that will promote greater individual freedom. I ... (read more)
Nobel laureate Milton Friedman has long been interested in health policy and the importance of reforms that will promote greater individual freedom. I ... (read more)
108th Congress Has Opportunity to Liberate MSAs
How well would Individual Retirement Accounts work if they were available only to employees of businesses with fewer than 50 people? What if Section 529 ... (read more)
How well would Individual Retirement Accounts work if they were available only to employees of businesses with fewer than 50 people? What if Section 529 ... (read more)
A Health Care Reform Agenda: Desirable State Changes
John McClaughry is president of the Ethan Allen Institute, a nonprofit research and education organization based in Vermont. This Agenda was produced with ... (read more)
John McClaughry is president of the Ethan Allen Institute, a nonprofit research and education organization based in Vermont. This Agenda was produced with ... (read more)
Are We Eating Ourselves to Death?
Is there or is there not an epidemic of obesity? Should you worry about that growing cummerbund around your waist? Of course not. We all perished 10 years ... (read more)
Is there or is there not an epidemic of obesity? Should you worry about that growing cummerbund around your waist? Of course not. We all perished 10 years ... (read more)
Bush Sends Mixed Signals
In his State of the Union Address on January 28, President George W. Bush mentioned a prescription drug benefit and the need to get affordable drugs to ... (read more)
In his State of the Union Address on January 28, President George W. Bush mentioned a prescription drug benefit and the need to get affordable drugs to ... (read more)
Jury Awards Forcing Doctors off the Job
Doctors in West Virginia and Nevada opened the new year by following through on threats to walk off the job in response to prohibitively high malpractice ... (read more)
Doctors in West Virginia and Nevada opened the new year by following through on threats to walk off the job in response to prohibitively high malpractice ... (read more)
Long-term Care Crisis Builds
State governments face their worst fiscal crises in 50 years. The federal budget flipped from a triple-digit surplus to a triple-digit deficit. Medicaid, ... (read more)
State governments face their worst fiscal crises in 50 years. The federal budget flipped from a triple-digit surplus to a triple-digit deficit. Medicaid, ... (read more)
March 2003 Health Care News (pdf)
The March 2003 issue of Health Care News offers articles addressing the key health care topics of the day: long-term care. Stephen Moses of the Center ... (read more)
The March 2003 issue of Health Care News offers articles addressing the key health care topics of the day: long-term care. Stephen Moses of the Center ... (read more)
Need a Doctor? Call a Lawyer!
The barriers to affordable health care in the U.S. have long included outdated government-run programs like Medicare and Medicaid and an over-abundance ... (read more)
The barriers to affordable health care in the U.S. have long included outdated government-run programs like Medicare and Medicaid and an over-abundance ... (read more)
TAA Contains Health Benefits with State Implications
Last August, President George W. Bush signed into law the Trade Adjustment Act of 2002 (TAA), helping eligible individuals maintain their health insurance ... (read more)
Last August, President George W. Bush signed into law the Trade Adjustment Act of 2002 (TAA), helping eligible individuals maintain their health insurance ... (read more)
The Politics of Medicare Reform
Emboldened by a desire to make the program sustainable, Republicans were preparing what they claimed would be the most sweeping changes to Medicare in ... (read more)
Emboldened by a desire to make the program sustainable, Republicans were preparing what they claimed would be the most sweeping changes to Medicare in ... (read more)
Virginia Regulators Seize Malpractice Insurer
Virginia insurance regulators placed troubled medical malpractice insurer Reciprocal of America into receivership on January 29. After reviewing the ... (read more)
Virginia insurance regulators placed troubled medical malpractice insurer Reciprocal of America into receivership on January 29. After reviewing the ... (read more)
