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Yes, Mr. President: A Free Market Can Fix Health Care, Cato Policy Analysis No. 650

In March 2009, President Barack Obama said, "If there is a way of getting this done where we're driving down costs and people are getting health insurance at an affordable rate, and have choice ...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 10/20/2009
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Halfway to Where? Answering the Key Questions of Health Care Reform, Cato Policy Analysis No. 643

Although neither the House nor the Senate passed a health care bill by President Obama's August deadline, various pieces of legislation have made it through committee, and they provide a concre...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 09/08/2009
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Obamacare to Come: Seven Bad Ideas for Health Care Reform, Cato Policy Analysis No. 638

President Obama has made it clear that reforming the American health care system will be one of his top priorities. In response, congressional leaders have promised to introduce legislation by ...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 05/19/2009
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Does the Doctor Need a Boss?, Cato Briefing Paper No. 111

The traditional model of medical delivery, in which the doctor is trained, respected, and compensated as an independent craftsman, is anachronistic. When a patient has multiple ailments, there is n...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 03/26/2009
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Medical Licensing: An Obstacle to Affordable, Quality Care, Cato Policy Analysis No. 621

In the United States, the authority to regulate medical professionals lies with the states. To practice within a state, clinicians must obtain a license from that state's government. State statu...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 03/26/2009
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A Fork in the Road: Obama, McCain, and Health Care, Cato Briefing Paper No. 104

Healthcare reform will be one of the top issues of the 2008 presidential election. In the face of widespread public demand for changes in the U.S. health care system, both Barack Obama and John McC...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 03/26/2009
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The Grass Is Not Always Greener: A Look at National Health Care Systems Around the World, Cato

Critics of the U.S. health care system frequently point to other countries as models for reform. They point out that many countries spend far less on health care than the United States yet seem...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 03/26/2009
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WHO's Fooling Who? The World Health Organization's Problematic Ranking of Health Care Systems,

The World Health Report 2000, prepared by the World Health Organization, presented performance rankings of 191 nations' health care systems. These rankings have been widely cited in public deba...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 03/26/2009
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A Gift of Life Deserves Compensation: How to Increase Living Kidney Donation with Realistic Inc

Executive Summary Treatment for end-stage renal (kidney) disease (ESRD) is the only government-funded health care in the United States that has no financial need- or age-based criteria; inclu...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 03/26/2009
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The Freedom to Spend Your Own Money on Medical Care: A Common Casualty of Universal Coverage, C

Most people would agree that a patient should always be able to spend his own money on the health care services he desires. Yet that freedom is often threatened or denied when government tries ...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 03/26/2009
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Medicaid's Soaring Cost: Time to Step on the Brakes, Cato Policy Analysis No. 597

Executive Summary Current trends and policies imply unsustainable growth in federal Medicaid outlays. In the year 2006, federal Medicaid spending was 11.9 percent of federal general revenues ...
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A Seismic Shift: How Canada's Supreme Court Sparked a Patients' Rights Revolution, Cato Policy

Executive Summary Early efforts by Western democracies to restrict freedom of contract were rationalized on the ground that such restrictions were necessary to prevent the suffering of ordi...
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Individual Mandates for Health Insurance: Slippery Slope to National Health Care, Cato Policy A

Executive Summary Proposals for achieving universal health insurance coverage are once again receiving serious attention. Among the ideas attracting bipartisan support is an individual health insu...
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Avoiding Medicare's Pharmaceutical Trap, Cato Policy Analysis No. 556

Executive Summary The Medicare drug benefit will soon set a dangerous trap. In January 2006 the federal government is scheduled to start purchasing prescription drugs for more than 40 million seni...
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Aging America's Achilles' Heel: Medicaid Long-Term Care, Cato Policy Analysis No. 549

Executive Summary Seventy-seven million aging baby boomers will sink America's retirement security system if we don't take action soon. A few years ago, the problem went unrecognized by most A...
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Medicaid’s Unseen Costs, Cato Policy Analysis No. 548

Medicaid occupies a special place among government programs for the poor. Public support for Medicaid is broader and deeper than for other safety net programs because the consequences of inadeq...
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Medicare Prescription Drugs: Medical Necessity Meets Fiscal Insanity Cato Briefing Pa

Medicare is facing severe financial strains that threaten its future viability. On a per capita basis, Medicare spending is increasing at twice the rate of the gross domestic product, and, accordin...
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Health Care Regulation: A $169 Billion Hidden Tax Cato Policy Analysis No. 527

Executive Summary Students of regulation have known for decades that the burden of regulation on the U.S. economy is sizable, with the latest figures suggesting this cost may approach $1 tril...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 03/26/2009
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War between the Generations: Federal Spending on the Elderly Set to Explode, Cat

Executive Summary At the signing ceremony for the new Medicare program in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson said, "No longer will young families see their own incomes, and their own hopes,...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 03/26/2009
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The Next Steps for Medicare Reform, Cato Policy Analysis No. 305

Executive Summary The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 made extensive Medicare reforms to delay the impending financial collapse of the system for a few years. But those changes do not sufficiently a...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 03/26/2009
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