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Catherine Daniell
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NCPA Blogs
NCPA Commentaries by John C Goodman
Dr. John C. Goodman, President and founder of the NCPA and Kellye Wright Fellow, is known as the father of Health Savings Accounts and was dubbed by National Journal as "a winner of the devolution derby." He is one of the nation's leading health economists and health policy experts. Dr. Goodman regularly briefs members of Congress on these issues and is the author of nine books.
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Feb 01, 2010 How We Got Well
Welcome to Future World, where the average income is $100,000 a year and people need only a 20-hour work week to earn it. Since the present day, medical science has progressed even faster than income.
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Jan 27, 2010 Ten Small-Scale Reforms for Pre-existing (Chronic) Conditions - Health Affairs Blog
On the Health Affairs health blog, John Goodman outlines ten ways the chronically ill can effectively cut health care costs.
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Jan 21, 2010 Who Really Understands ObamaCare? – Kaiser Health News
Kaiser Health News features NCPA President John Goodman's commentary on who really does and doesn't understand the administration's health reform proposals.
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Dec 22, 2009 Obama Passed Up Opportunity for Real Reform - Health Care News
No one really likes any of the various health care reform proposals passed by Congress. Why would the majority of Members of Congress vote for bills that no one really likes and no one thinks will control costs or improve quality and possibly not even improve access to care?
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Nov 09, 2009 The Worst Bill Ever- Kaiser Health News
Prior to last Saturday's vote, The Wall Street Journal aptly called the House bill "the worst bill ever." The bill is enormously expensive, but it is full of perverse incentives - an issue already plaguing our health care systems.
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Oct 01, 2009 Government-Centered Health Care Overhaul Bound to Fail- Health Care News
Why is Washington having so much trouble reforming health care? And why, if Congress passes a major overhaul, are the problems of cost, quality, and access almost certain to get worse?
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Sep 21, 2009 There Will Be Rationing
Sifting out what's right in Sarah Palin's 'death panels' hyperbole
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Aug 22, 2009 Explaining the Town-Hall Protests - Wall Street Journal
'They're un-American," says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "They're spreading lies and distortions," says senior White House adviser David Axelrod. They are "being funded and organized by out-of-district special-interest groups and insurance companies," says the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
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Aug 12, 2009 The Democrats' Health Reform Problem Begins With the Questions Democrats Ask - National Review
How can Washington have spent so much time debating health care and still have failed to come up with a reasonable reform? By starting from the wrong premises. There are three basic questions to be asked about the design of any health-care system.
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Jul 17, 2009 Doctors are not to blame for the high cost of medical services - National Review Cover
Listen to almost any diatribe against the health-care system and you will hear the same refrain: We are getting too little care and paying too much for it. And, more and more, we are hearing that the villains behind this are not oppressive government regulators or meddlesome insurance-company bureaucrats - but doctors.
