Price transparency is still a foreign concept in America’s mainstream health care landscape. But for nations like India, price transparency is mainstream, and it is the driving force behind Dr.…
What The American Health Care System Can Learn From India
What happens when the government foots most of the bill for medical care? For one thing, government gets to decide which medical procedures it will cover, and which will be…
? there?s less room for political tomfoolery. Recent articles in both Business Week and TIME highlight the unintended consequences likely to result from an expanded government role in American health…
Fox News received the outline of the proposed health-care bill that Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., is expected to introduce. After a very quick first read, I see a couple of…
In a new National Review piece titled ?Obamanopoly,? Regina Herzlinger explains how the prices associated with consumer-driven health care would work better than government mandates in increasing access to health…
The latest print version of U.S. News includes an interesting commentary from Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute titled “Not Enough Care to Go Around.” Tanner lays out in simple…
Prof. Regina Herzlinger of Harvard takes issue here with the assertion made by Obama and others who insist that we need a lot more governmental meddling in health care that…
The latest issue of Money discusses that topic, including an interview with Dartmouth researcher Elliott Fisher that features the following exchange: How do you know the spending isn’t making people…
Today the president will address the American Medical Association as part of his effort to push Americans into government-run healthcare. No doubt he will say that his version of “reform”…
Among the experts contributing to a special National Review issue dedicated to health care is Regina Herzlinger, a former John Locke Foundation Headliner. Here?s a portion of her latest prescription:…
July 31 — that’s the deadline Obama administration officials and Democratic leaders in Congress have set to pass “comprehensive health-care reform.” What would the legislation include? No one has any…