Health & Medicine
Everything from the morality of eating cookies to the solvency of Medicare.
- Hitting the Sick in the Wallet Alex M. Brill 11/06/2009
- Taxes and other provisions in the current healthcare reform legislation will inflict the sick and the elderly with higher prices.
- The Healthcare Co-op: Believe It, It’s Not Butter Wistar Wilson 10/30/2009
- If healthcare overhaul legislation including a public plan fails to pass, Democrats could fall back on a homespun idea from the heartland: healthcare cooperatives.
- Bleeding Biotech James V. DeLong 10/24/2009
- Given all the hopes for medical progress that ride on biotech progress, one might assume that Congress and the administration would seek ways to encourage investment. One would be wrong.
- The Baucus Plan’s Phony Deficit Reduction Andrew G. Biggs 10/22/2009
- The true effect of Senator Baucus’s healthcare bill will likely be large increases in the deficit, not an $81-billion reduction.
- How Different Is Grandma’s Spending? Andrew G. Biggs 10/17/2009
- The inflation seniors experience is far more similar to that felt by other Americans than it is different.
- The AARP Paradox Scott Harrington 10/02/2009
- What explains AARP’s support for Medicare cuts as a means to expand health insurance coverage to the non-elderly, a position that purportedly contributed to thousands of AARP membership cancellations?
- Blood Money Charles C. Johnson 10/02/2009
- How a market for blood donations can help save lives.
- India’s Counterfeit Claims on Counterfeit Drugs Roger Bate 10/01/2009
- The Indian government is touting a new survey showing a low percentage of drugs within the country are counterfeit. But the reality is that India still has a major problem with poor-quality drugs.
- An Empty Nod to Tort Reform Dr. Gilbert Ross 09/24/2009
- In an apparent attempt to sway at least one undecided Republican senator to sign on to its healthcare reform program, the Obama administration announced the initiation of a ‘pilot program’ on tort reform.
- Will Small Businesses Stop Offering Health Insurance If Reform Passes? Scott Shane 09/18/2009
- For the average business, paying a penalty will cost them less than providing insurance.