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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
 
 
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Health Care Policy
 

This section of the website gathers together AEI research, books, and events focused on health care policy, including health coverage and private insurance.

 
Feature: What Does Brown Mean for Health Reform?

With the election of Scott Brown ending the Democrat's Senate supermajority the overhaul approach to health reform is no longer inevitable. AEI scholars are analyzing what it means for health care and other issues.

John C. Fortier: A Healthcare Brownout

John C. Fortier: Dem's Have Only Themselves to Blame

Michael Barone: What Democracts Should Do Now

Michael Barone: Little Guy Sends Message to Washington

Norman J. Ornstein: Lessons From Massachusetts

Norman J. Ornstein: What Scott Brown’s Victory Means for Health Care

Scott Harrington: Thank You, Intransigent Ideologues

More health care analysis can be found below under "Recent Publications." For more on the Massachusetts election, see the Politics and Elections page.

 
 
 
 
A Fight the GOP Might Want to Lose
 
As a future Republican president or Republican Congress struggles with health care costs a decade from now, he or she or they may well look back on 2009 as a chance to hold the line on health costs and let the Democrats take the blame.
 
Obama Budget Rigs Health Care Numbers
 
For the first time by any administration in memory, the Obama budget forecast rejects the Medicare Trustees' projections for long-run health care cost growth. Why would the White House do this?
 
Autism and the Big Vaccine Lie
 
A speculative study about the relationship between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet was retracted today for having numerous flaws and insufficient data within it.
 
Another Obama Tax Hike
 
President Barack Obama's policy priorities in the health care debate impose barriers on the American dream by increasing the penalty on additional income for low- and middle-income workers.
 
 
Medicaid Everyone Can Count On (forthcoming) Public Choices for Equity and Efficiency
 
In an era of national health care reform, this volume is an invaluable resource for policymakers tasked with crafting policies that balance the distinct needs of taxpayers, providers, and the poor.  
 
Medicaid Everyone Can Count On (forthcoming) Public Choices for Equity and Efficiency
 
In an era of national health care reform, this volume is an invaluable resource for policymakers tasked with crafting policies that balance the distinct needs of taxpayers, providers, and the poor.  
 
U.S. Markets for Vaccines Characteristics, Case Studies, and Controversies
 
This volume offers a balanced and comprehensive snapshot of the changing landscape for vaccine markets.  
 
 
PAST EVENTS
 
 
Immediately following President Obama's State of the Union address, AEI will host an economic conference call.
 
 
AEI scholars will discuss the major domestic policy issues that will dominate 2010.
 
 
What reforms will revive the FEHBP and improve Medicare?