Health Care
Commentary
Senate Finance Committee Seeks Funds for Health Care Bill
Members of the Senate Finance Committee, which is working on a health care overhaul bill parallel to that proposed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committees Affordable Health Choices Act, have said their draft proposal now bears a total cost of just under $1 trillion. That figure is ...
Business & Economics
Policy Alerts
Policy Alert This publication, sent via email or fax, highlights PRI’s latest releases, media coverage, and impact on public policy in California and across the nation. Learn how PRI is affecting California and the Nation. > Sign Up> Unsubscribe May 5, 2010 April 29, 2010 April 22, 2010 April 15, ...
Commentary
The Great “Prevention” Myth II
The advocates of government controlled health care keep pushing the prevention-saves-money myth. The Pacific Research Institute’s Sally Pipes offers more reasons why prevention, even when it’s a good thing, doesn’t make health care cheaper: … another example from a study published last year in the journal Circulation. Suppose we enact ...
Commentary
Health Overhaul Partisanship Hit
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill remain unable to reach a bipartisan agreement on a health care reform plan, some policy analysts are questioning the congressional majority’s willingness to put partisan politics aside and work together to improve health care policy. “None of the Democratic proposals are ‘reform’; rather, they are ...
Commentary
Cut Costs Without Rationing Care By Putting Patient Back In Charge
Investor’s Business Daily, August 31, 2009 Lux Libertas, September 1, 2009 Decades of data confirm a simple truth: If we want to lower health costs, we need to put consumers back in charge. Many people now feel like second-class citizens when they enter the doctor’s office. That’s because everyone in ...
Commentary
An ounce of prevention is no cost-saving cure
In the debate over health care reform, preventive medicine has become almost everyone’s panacea. During recent campaign-style town hall meetings in New Hampshire, Colorado and Montana, President Barack Obama never missed an opportunity to claim that preventive care and wellness programs would save money and lives. Yet there are some ...
Commentary
Liberal Doctors and Distortions about the Uninsured in America
Last July ’09 the WSJ published an article by Carl Bialik, The Unhealthy Accounting of Uninsured Americans: Congressional debate over health care hinges on numbers projected a decade forward to make sure the plan can be paid for. But it’s hard enough pinning down today’s numbers. The Census Bureau estimates ...
Commentary
Preventive medicine does help to keep costs down
Sally C. Pipes offers a dangerously misleading diagnosis in her Aug. 30 column, “An ounce of prevention is no cost-saving cure.” Citing a recent CBO analysis, Pipes wrongly concludes that preventive health care raises costs by increasing utilization. In fact, today’s clinically based prevention reduces utilization and can potentially save ...
Commentary
Why Idaho Ranks Number Three in U.S. Health Ownership
As the nation debates President Obama’s “public option” for health care, the citizens of Idaho have an important contribution. Idaho enjoys considerable freedom in health ownership compared to the rest of the United States, according to a new study. The 2009 U.S. Index of Health Ownership (IHOP) ranks Idaho number ...
Commentary
Obama plan is stealth for a single payer system
San Jose Mercury News, August 27, 2009 At a recent town hall meeting in New Hampshire, President Barack Obama promised that health care reform will not threaten private insurance coverage. “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan,” he said. “This is not about ...
Senate Finance Committee Seeks Funds for Health Care Bill
Members of the Senate Finance Committee, which is working on a health care overhaul bill parallel to that proposed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committees Affordable Health Choices Act, have said their draft proposal now bears a total cost of just under $1 trillion. That figure is ...
Policy Alerts
Policy Alert This publication, sent via email or fax, highlights PRI’s latest releases, media coverage, and impact on public policy in California and across the nation. Learn how PRI is affecting California and the Nation. > Sign Up> Unsubscribe May 5, 2010 April 29, 2010 April 22, 2010 April 15, ...
The Great “Prevention” Myth II
The advocates of government controlled health care keep pushing the prevention-saves-money myth. The Pacific Research Institute’s Sally Pipes offers more reasons why prevention, even when it’s a good thing, doesn’t make health care cheaper: … another example from a study published last year in the journal Circulation. Suppose we enact ...
Health Overhaul Partisanship Hit
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill remain unable to reach a bipartisan agreement on a health care reform plan, some policy analysts are questioning the congressional majority’s willingness to put partisan politics aside and work together to improve health care policy. “None of the Democratic proposals are ‘reform’; rather, they are ...
Cut Costs Without Rationing Care By Putting Patient Back In Charge
Investor’s Business Daily, August 31, 2009 Lux Libertas, September 1, 2009 Decades of data confirm a simple truth: If we want to lower health costs, we need to put consumers back in charge. Many people now feel like second-class citizens when they enter the doctor’s office. That’s because everyone in ...
An ounce of prevention is no cost-saving cure
In the debate over health care reform, preventive medicine has become almost everyone’s panacea. During recent campaign-style town hall meetings in New Hampshire, Colorado and Montana, President Barack Obama never missed an opportunity to claim that preventive care and wellness programs would save money and lives. Yet there are some ...
Liberal Doctors and Distortions about the Uninsured in America
Last July ’09 the WSJ published an article by Carl Bialik, The Unhealthy Accounting of Uninsured Americans: Congressional debate over health care hinges on numbers projected a decade forward to make sure the plan can be paid for. But it’s hard enough pinning down today’s numbers. The Census Bureau estimates ...
Preventive medicine does help to keep costs down
Sally C. Pipes offers a dangerously misleading diagnosis in her Aug. 30 column, “An ounce of prevention is no cost-saving cure.” Citing a recent CBO analysis, Pipes wrongly concludes that preventive health care raises costs by increasing utilization. In fact, today’s clinically based prevention reduces utilization and can potentially save ...
Why Idaho Ranks Number Three in U.S. Health Ownership
As the nation debates President Obama’s “public option” for health care, the citizens of Idaho have an important contribution. Idaho enjoys considerable freedom in health ownership compared to the rest of the United States, according to a new study. The 2009 U.S. Index of Health Ownership (IHOP) ranks Idaho number ...
Obama plan is stealth for a single payer system
San Jose Mercury News, August 27, 2009 At a recent town hall meeting in New Hampshire, President Barack Obama promised that health care reform will not threaten private insurance coverage. “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan,” he said. “This is not about ...
