Health Care Experts
NCPA Commentaries by John C Goodman
Dr. John C. Goodman, President and founder of the NCPA, is known as the father of Medical Savings Accounts and was dubbed by National Journal as "A winner of the devolution derby." He is an expert on tax, welfare, Social Security and health care reform. Dr. Goodman has testified before Congressional committees and regularly briefs member of Congress on these issues.
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Jan 01, 1998 Rethinking Robin Hood
As voters go to the polls on August 9 to vote on a property tax reduction, it will be a good time to reflect on how we pay for the public schools and why we do it that way.
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Jan 01, 1998 The Wrong Medicine at the Wrong Time
With Medicare teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, President Clinton is proposing to add more beneficiaries and more costs. Under the president's new proposal, all Americans ages 62 to 64 (the Medicare eligibility age is 65) would be able to join Medicare in exchange for a monthly premium of $300.
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Jan 01, 1998 Patients Need Power, Not A Bill of Rights
The reality of modern medicine is the traditional doctor-patient relationship has been all but destroyed. Whereas doctors once functioned as agents of their patients, today they are more likely to function as agents of third-party payer bureaucracies.
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Jan 01, 1998 Where Have All The Liberals Gone?
Outside New York City and Hollywood, it's hard to find a liberal these days. In fact, it's hard to find anyone who will admit to ever having been a liberal.
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Jan 01, 1998 Medicare Time Bomb
While the private sector seems to have gotten health care costs under control, the same is not true of Medicare - the federal program that pays medical bills for the elderly.
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Dec 08, 1997 The GOP's Health Care Folly
A bill before Congress would allow the federal government to regulate the health care plan of every American citizen who has private insurance. It would raise costs, and therefore premiums, and cause millions to be uninsured. And although the bill's purpose is to raise the quality of care patients receive, in all likelihood the quality would go down, not up.
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Mar 10, 1997 Response to Michael Kinsley's Article Concerning Capital Gains Tax
This dialogue grows out of Michael Kinsley's article "Eight Reasons Not to Cut the Capital-Gains Tax," which appeared in SLATE.
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Jan 01, 1997 Keep Government Out
Only a few years ago, the Clinton Administration was touting the joys of managed care. That sentiment was echoed by big business, big insurance and on Capitol Hill by politicians on both sides of the aisle. Had the Clinton health plan become law, we all would be enrolled in HMOs by now.
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Jan 01, 1997 An Agenda for the 105th Congress
A funding crisis, an insurance crisis and a quality crisis. All three require fundamental changes in federal policy.
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Jan 01, 1997 Health Insurance for Everyone
The number of Americans without health insurance at any one time has risen steadily over the past decade and now totals more than 40 million, nearly 10 million of them children. Unwise federal policies contribute to this trend.
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