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Health Policy Studies at AEI

Bringing together health policy research and commentary by scholars and adjunct scholars of AEI.

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Robert B. Helms has been named by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to serve on the National Advisory Council for Health Care Research and Quality. The twenty-one-member council, to which Newt Gingrich also belongs, provides advice and recommendations on priorities for a national health services research agenda to the directory of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and to the secretary of health and human services.

New Resource Page: Useful Documents on the Cost of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

Featured Commentary
Article: FDA Drug Officers by Scott Gottlieb

Health Policy Outlook: Health Policy on a Budget by Joseph Antos

Speech: Malaria Policy by Roger Bate

Paper: The Continued Economic Burden of Malaria by Roger Bate et al

Testimony: Malaria and Tuberculosis in Africa by Roger Bate
 
On the Issues: Returning from Iraq, Still Fighting Vietnam by Sally Satel

Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis

Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis: A Doctrine in Search of Data, by Nicholas Eberstadt and Sally Satel, suggests that income distribution is far less powerful a determinant of population health than the inequality hypothesis holds.


Health Care Matters
In Health Care Matters: Pharmaceuticals, Obesity, and the Quality of Life, Richard D. Miller Jr. and H. E. Frech III argue that policy should no longer be based on the assumption that health-care consumption does not improve health, but rather on a new understanding that such consumption--especially pharmaceutical use--does matter.