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Impact - August 2008
Submitted on 8.31.2008
PRI Ideas in Action - August 2008
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
Why Governor Schwarzenegger’s – and Organized Medicine’s – War on Choice in Health Insurance Will Backfire
Submitted by John R. Graham on 8.20.2008
Ever since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ABX1 1 stumbled just short of the finish line last January, he and his Democratic allies in the legislature have been looking to move bits and pieces of the failed health reform plan forward. Amazingly, one that he favors is sponsored by the legislator who killed ABX1 1, state Senator Sheila Kuehl, as well as the California Medical Association.
2008 U.S. Index of Health Ownership
Submitted by John R. Graham on 8.14.2008
San Francisco-Americans lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to the second edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). The Index measures the degree to which individuals, be they patients, health professionals, entrepreneurs, or taxpayers, "own" the health care in their states.
Ranking Health Care in the States: The Most Important Input is the Patient
Submitted by John R. Graham on 8.12.2008 6:00:00 PM
This month, PRI publishes the second edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership (IHOP), the only project that ranks states’ health care according to principles of individual choice. This is very different from other rankings of health care in the states, because each IHOP measurement calls for less government intervention, while other rankings often favor big government spending on health programs, as well as centralized control. As I noted last year, significant challenges make it very difficult to connect the performance of the health care “system” with actual health outcomes. A recent Commonwealth Foundation publication included performance measurements of both health care access and “lifestyle” inputs. In my analysis, I pointed out that access and quality measurements have hardly any relation to healthy lives.
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