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Carrie Lukus in National Review Online
Feb. 14, 2007
Excerpt: I've been criticized, most recently by Larry Hunter in the New York Sun, for my January 25 article on National Review Online arguing that conservatives need to maintain a strategic perspective on the rising tax burdens that will follow from a failure to fix Social Security.:
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National Review Online
Aug. 21, 2008
Excerpt: The solution is to make health care much more like other sectors of the economy, where competition drives entrepreneurs to offer a wide range of affordable products and services to consumers -- like $300 laptops, cut-rate vacation packages sold online, and discount brokerage firms. To unleash a new wave of entrepreneurial energy in health care, policymakers should focus on a four-point plan of action[.]
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National Review Online
Jan. 4, 2007
Excerpt: When Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress, they have passed legislation resulting in more government involvement in the health-care sector. Whatever its intended effect, such legislation has invariably made health care and health insurance more expensive. Here's a review.
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National Review Online
Mar. 13, 2008
Excerpt: [I]f John McCain and Barack Obama become the candidates for president this fall, we may see a subtle but useful shift that could actually lead to improving how health care is provided in this country. Both McCain and Obama recognize that the key question in health-care reform is not coverage, but cost.
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National Review Online
Oct. 19, 2007
Excerpt: Many advocates of a single-payer (government) system of health insurance argue that 'administrative' costs for private health insurance are much higher than those for such single-payer systems, such as Medicare. The adoption of a single-payer system for all Americans, they claim, would yield savings sufficient to cover all the uninsured.
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National Review Online
July 2, 2007
Excerpt: Michael Moore's new movie, SiCKO, should be called 'SKiPO,' since it skips over so many vital facts en route to government medicine.
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National Review Online
Feb. 5, 2007
Excerpt: Gov. Romney [of Massachusetts] had a vision of creating a competitive marketplace for affordable health insurance and reallocating subsidies to provide health insurance for uninsured citizens who use hospital emergency rooms for medical care at taxpayer expense; but the compromises demanded by the heavily Democratic state legislature are jeopardizing its success.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dec. 27, 2018
"A federal rule requires all hospitals to post online a master list of prices for the services they provide so consumers can review them starting Jan. 1. The health care industry nationally has a reputation for having little price transparency, which can make it difficult for consumers to price compare. But the hospital's master list prices, sometimes called a chargemaster, is also not a complete look, consumer advocates say."
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U.S. Government Accountability Office [GAO]
Mar. 1, 2012
21 pages. "[GAO was asked] to identify research completed on estimates of cost savings from the use of generic drugs in the United States. This report summarizes the findings of peer-reviewed articles, government reports, and studies by national organizations, including trade and nonprofit organizations, on this topic." Editor's Note: a podcast of an audio interview by GAO staff with John Dicken, Director, Health Care is online. [GAO-12-371R, published Jan. 31, 2012, released Mar. 1, 2012]
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Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Nov. 14, 2006
Excerpt: Data from the insurance industry and reviews of premiums offered through on-line sellers show that premiums for nongroup health insurance are much lower than premiums reported on national surveys for employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI).
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