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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
National Journal | Institute of Medicine Report Recommends Free Women's Health Services
Health insurers should pay for a range of services for women at no cost, including birth control, counseling on sexually transmitted diseases, and AIDS screening, the influential Institute of Medicine recommended on Tuesday.

Econ Comments                                                                                                             
Washington Times | ROSENBLOOM: Fixing medicine: Don’t try, just spy
Uncle Sam wants to snoop on physicians and their patients.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
AEI: The American | The Logic of Making Seniors Pay More: Healthcare Fact of the Week
Among many matters being discussed in the debate over the debt limit are proposals to reform health insurance policies used to supplement Medicare, such as so-called Medigap plans.

Reports                                                                                                                         
Heritage Foundation | Health Care Reform in Maine: Reversing “Obamacare Lite”
This spring, after living under the costly failures of Obamacare-like health care legislation for two decades, the Maine Legislature enacted a set of patient-centered, market-based health care reforms. The Maine experience is both a warning of Obamacare’s likely effects and a practical demonstration to other states of how to enact sound free-market health care reforms in spite of Obamacare.