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Romney touts healthcare reform
Submitted by Steve Muscatello on 1.27.2006
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won’t call it universal coverage or even an individual mandate, but he will say that his new healthcare plan will require every Bay State citizen to have health insurance.
Unhealthy in Massachusetts
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.26.2006
Republican Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is trying to accomplish in his final year in office what Democrats can only dream of these days: boosting government spending on and regulation of health care and requiring individuals to purchase government-designed policies. Romney’s plan, which is backed by such liberals as Sen. Ted Kennedy (D., Mass.), is being pitched as a compact between citizens and the state.
Unhealthy litigation
Submitted by Peter Pitts on 1.24.2006
It's important to place the Food and Drug Administration's new rule on physician labeling (which provides for more prescriber-friendly information about pharmaceutical products) into the appropriate context: urgent.
Obscure Health Savings Accounts Might Yet Make Medical History
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.23.2006
Health care reform is said to figure prominently in President Bush's upcoming State of the Union address. And those calling for a nationalized health care system have already begun to re-energize their efforts. Bush should build his health care reform agenda on the same free-market principles that gave birth to health savings accounts (HSAs) two years ago.
Health Care Expert Says Drug Program Unnecessary For Most People
Submitted on 1.20.2006
A health care expert said today that he sympathizes with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's frustration over the federal government's botched takeover of prescription drug coverage for the elderly poor and disabled.
Prescription drug importation breaches firms' intellectual property rights
Submitted by Peter Pitts on 1.19.2006
Foreign Government-Controlled Prescription Drug Prices May Result in 100,000 Lost Jobs to California According to New Pacific Research Institute Study
Submitted on 1.18.2006
PRI Urges Governor Schwarzenegger to Respect Medical Inventors’ Right to Compete Freely Across Borders
SAN FRANCISCO –Normalizing the diversion of prescription drugs from foreign countries could result in job losses of up to 100,000 for the state and cost the California economy as much as $3 billion according to a new study by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a California-based free-market think tank.
Prop. 209, 10 years later
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.18.2006
Ballot initiatives have been getting shot down like skeet lately in California, but that hasn’t always been the case. This year marks the 10th anniversary of one that passed handily but needs to be revisited.
A plea to lift ban on drug imports
Submitted by Daniel B. Wood on 1.17.2006
LOS ANGELES – Mike Jordan has just left a Rite Aid pharmacy with a $111.78 prescription bill. "As far as I can tell, I will be getting about 40 percent of this back," the retiree says, referring to Medicare's new program to cover a portion of drug costs for those who enroll. But he thinks he can do even better.
Who's got health insurance?
Submitted by John R. Graham on 1.15.2006
I hate to intrude on the doom and gloom about the "crisis of the uninsured," but the problem of Californians without health insurance is not as awful as generally portrayed.
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