News
Bloomberg | Fracking ‘Health Challenges’ to Be Examined by U.S. Advisers
The Institute of Medicine will examine whether the process of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from rock “poses potential health challenges,” a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said.
Politico | States could be in a bind on mandate
If the Supreme Court strikes down the health reform law’s individual mandate, the states at the forefront of implementing the law could find themselves like Wile E. Coyote in the Road Runner cartoons: racing ahead only to discover there’s no ground underneath their feet.
Econ Comments & Analysis
Forbes | The Lone Path to Cheap Healthcare Is Expensive Healthcare
All of which brings us to the current debate about healthcare. As evidenced by the wailing on both sides about making healthcare “affordable” through legislative fiat, it’s apparent that the Right and Left both are unaware of the beautiful truth that much like all other market goods, expensive, largely inaccessible healthcare must be introduced free of government distortion at nosebleed prices so that those same prices can eventually fall.
NBER | Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience
In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a combination of insurance market reforms, mandates, and subsidies that later served as the model for national health care reform.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | Opening the Door to Health Care Rationing Under Obamacare
One of the biggest fears Americans have about Obamacare is who will ultimately control health care decisions: the government or patients and their doctors.
