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Fantasy’s End. Back to reality for supporters of drug importation.
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 12.30.2004
The Health and Human Services Task Force on Drug Importation, which delivered its report to Congress four days before Christmas, ought to move the debate over importing foreign sourced drugs into the United States from fantasyland back to reality. As the report makes clear, the issue isn’t about free trade or re-importing drugs produced in the United States. It centers on public safety, property rights, price controls, and pharmaceutical progress.
Lawyers are bad medicine
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 12.30.2004
If told that Congress could pass a bill that would reduce health care costs by 9 percent, more than $100 billion a year, without canceling a single doctor's appointment, shutting one facility or cutting anyone actually working in the medical profession, most Americans would react with three rapid-fire questions: "What is it?" "What are they waiting for?" and "What gives?"
Madison Ave. Sharing Drug Makers' Pain
Submitted by Nat Ives on 12.24.2004
Media companies are feeling their own pain from the COX-2 debacle.
A Prescription for Health
Submitted by David Gratzer on 12.21.2004
After sealing his win, President George W. Bush outlined an ambitious domestic agenda for the second term: Social Security reform, tax simplification, higher academic standards for public education, and a ban on same-sex marriage. Absent from the list was any mention of health care.
Healthy Choice
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 12.20.2004
With 45 million Americans lacking health insurance, improving affordability should be at the top of any politician's to-do list. After all, nearly one in three Americans without insurance lives in a household with at least $50,000 in annual earnings. If health insurance were more affordable, millions more Americans would purchase it.
Public Policy Expert on Canadian and U.S. Health Systems Responds to HHS Drug Importation Study
Submitted on 12.20.2004
Public Policy Expert on Canadian and U.S. Health Systems Responds to HHS Drug Importation Study
How Whole Foods Can Help Wal-Mart Beat Scrooge Rap
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 12.17.2004
Despite its enormous popularity with consumers, Wal-Mart is under attack for paying nonunion wages and shorting employees on health care coverage. The massive discounter recently dodged an electoral bullet aimed at it by union and other left-wing activists in California that would have forced it to offer a government-approved health care plan or ante up millions in additional taxes. Although victorious this time around, Wal-Mart's status quo is anything but stable.
'Greatest Canadian'? Think again
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 12.9.2004
It's no surprise that Tommy Douglas has been dubbed the "Greatest Canadian" by the CBC and its viewers. The single-payer health-care system he helped pioneer has, in the words of a 2001 Senate report, "achieved iconic status." Indeed it is a testament to the power of the myths surrounding medicare that Douglas could be exalted in this way while no fewer than 815,000 Canadians are waiting for health services, many in considerable pain.
Nationalizing Compassion: The Canadian Free Lunch
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes, Benjamin Zycher on 12.6.2004
There are, sadly, no free lunches. That eternal truth is the beginning of wisdom with respect to the view of some that a Canadian-style system of national (read: bureaucratized) health insurance is the answer for the problems and growing costs of the U.S. health care market.
Market debate over flu vaccine
Submitted by Dale Kasler on 12.1.2004
John Grubbs was an Antelope Valley high school student with a brand-new driver's license when the 1973-74 Mideast oil embargo led the federal government to cap the price of fuel. The result: long lines to buy scarce, but affordable, gasoline. "I'd hate to see that come back again," Grubbs said.
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