News
Politico | Few states set for health exchanges
When health insurance exchanges open in 2014, it is now clear that the federal government will be playing the lead, not the understudy.
CNN Money | Save on health care, even as your body falls apart
You managed to glide through your twenties and thirties without any major health issues. Yet, as the calendar pages turn, you're finding that a host of minor -- and perhaps a few major -- medical problems keep cropping up.
National Journal | Higher Charges Drive Health Spending, Report Finds
Higher prices charged by hospitals, outpatient centers, and other providers drove up health care spending at double the rate of inflation during the economic downturn—even as patients consumed less medical care overall, according to a study released on Monday.
Econ Comments & Analysis
Independent Institute | What Food Stamps Can Teach Us about Health Care
There are about 50 million people on Medicaid in the United States and the biggest problem they have, by far, is finding a doctor who will see them. Yet this is actually an easy problem to solve if only the health policy community were not blinded by an overwhelming prejudice
Blogs
The American | Key Obamacare architect endorses Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan
This consumer-driven, universal coverage system provides excellent health care for the sick, tops the world in consumer satisfaction, and costs 40 percent less, as a percentage of GDP, than the system in the US.
