The Congressional Budget Office must apply greater levels of scrutiny to the broader consequences of the health reform bill.
We need targeted reforms, not a federal takeover, to fix the insurance system.
Blue Skies and Brickwork Summit
September 23, 2009
Although this year's initial version of comprehensive health reform was too much, too fast, and not put together in a way that was sustainable, it must wait for reconsideration until next year.
Reversing decades of overregulation, mistargeted tax subsidies, and lack of transparency in the health care sector would not solve all problems, but it surely would help reduce them.
The lack of good information on providers' performance is an impediment to improving the affordability and quality of health care.
AEI Online
September 8, 2009
In a policy memorandum for the office of Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), resident fellow Thomas P. Miller provides an overview of health care cooperatives and their prospects for workability in the context of political and regulatory pressures.
The national health insurance exchange will eventually become a more contested battleground in this fall's health care debate.
Miller spoke with MoneyWatch.com about what he believes is wrong with the current proposals before Congress and what changes he’d like to see.
Moderation in one's personal habits should be matched by moderation (or at least more humility) in public policy.
President Obama is not the first chief executive to discover that it was much easier to promise grand dreams on the campaign trail than to reconcile them with stubborn realities.
President Obama's speech continued his efforts to seduce the main organized interest groups of the health industry to listen to the magic words rather than pay attention to the content of imminent health legislation.
For the time being, members of Congress and the Obama administration remain reluctant to free their inner socialist child and make more transparent the sort of health care transformation and revenue extraction quantities they may prefer ultimately.
Taxing health insurance without addressing the problems of third-party payment schemes within the current system will get us nowhere.
The political case for an individual insurance mandate is built on false hopes, empty illusions, and larger agendas.
Is there really a better way to reform our health care system?
The strong association between educational attainment and health is one more reason to empower Americans, not Washington, with greater ownership of their health care.
It is important to understand and define the degree to which a mandate may limit an individual's ability to direct resources for personal care.
The president's opening offer of healthcare at a teaser rate fails to deliver what we actually need, value, and can afford.
Several elements of the health reform plans moving proposed by the White House and moving through Congress would be detrimental to patients.
Vigorous market competition for self-paying consumers may lead to more effective self-regulation and better health care options.
In his plan to save America from its health care crisis, Ezekiel Emanuel provides a number of nuanced findings and provocative thoughts, but the wholeis less than the sum of its parts.
A new study continues to rain on the political parade of claims that the uncompensated care costs of the uninsured are largely recycled into higher private insurance premiums.
Thomas P. Miller explainstrends in the number of Americans without health insurance.
Until we deal with Medicare's fundamental problems, we need incremental action on many fronts to get better results for the money we will continue to spend in the traditional Medicare program.
Arecent study on health care disparities provides the latest comprehensive summary of what can be measured, if not a practical guide to what we could, or should, do about it.
Health inequalities are best resolved by pluralistic social processes that facilitate, but do not mandate, more effective choices and trade-offs.
A successful health care plan will have to provide consumers with realistic means of obtaining the services they need, not necessarily those they want.
The American household is better off financially than you may think, especially given the media frenzy over rising consumer debt.
A successful health care plan will have to provide consumers with realistic means of obtaining the services they need, not necessarily those they want.
Scholarsassess the Medicare Advantage plans, howthey differ from traditional Medicare, how well they meet beneficiaries' needs, and how they affect competition.
Greater transparency in health-care financing and more skepticism regarding the purported rationales for hidden cross-subsidies and regulatory protections are sorely overdue.
Yogi Berra might say regarding a typical emergency room today, "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded."
Scholars from AEI and elsewhere answer key questions about Medicare drug coverage and government controls.
The 110th Congress may redirect resources toward an even more expanded role for political decision-making in health-care markets.
How can the health-care system best be reformed to benefit consumers and providers alike?
The Massachusetts health reform plan has generated more favorable press plaudits and political projections than its shaky foundations merit.
Thomas P. Miller reviews Porter and Teisberg's Redefining Health Care.
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