Research/Policy Issues
Publications
NCPA Policy Reports:
A Medical Reform Proposal Everyone Can Love: Finding Common GRound Among Medicare Reformers
Medicare: Past, Present and Future
The Rising Burden of Health Spending on Seniors
The Market for Medical Care: Why You Don’t Know the Price; Why You Don’t Know about Quality; And What Can Be Done about It.
Shopping for Drugs: 2007
Opportunities for State Medicaid Reform
Workers’ Compensation: Rx for Policy Reform
Health Care Spending: What the Future Will Look Like
Consumer Driven Health Care: The Changing Role of the Patient
Shopping for Drugs: 2004
Shopping for Drugs
Medical Savings Accounts and Prescription Drugs: Evidence from South Africa
Characteristics Of An Ideal Health Care System
Medical Savings Accounts in South Africa
Medical Savings Accounts: Obstacles to Their Growth and Ways to Improve Them
Medical Savings Accounts: The Singapore Experience
NCPA Policy Backgrounders:
Medical Malpractice Reform
MSA's Can Be a Windfall for All
Defined Contribution Health Insurance
Reforming The U.S. Health Care System
NCPA Brief Analyses
U.S. Cancer Care Is Number One
SCHIP Expansion: Robin Hood in Reverse
Texas Health Care Reform
Insuring the Uninsured: Five Steps to Improve the Massachusetts Plan
Answering the Critics of the Bush Health Plan
The Bush Health Plan
Seniors' Drug Costs: Government versus the Internet
Medicare: Negotiated Drug Prices May Not Lower Costs
Update 2006: Why Are Health Costs Rising?
Will Mandatory Health Insurance Work?
Crisis of the Uninsured: 2006 Update
Federal Medicaid Funding Reform
Saving Health Insurance from the Minimum Wage
Consumer-Driven Health Care Spurs Innovation in Physician Services
How to Create a Competitive Insurance Market
Transparency in Health Care
Health Savings Accounts: Answering the Critics, Part I
Health Savings Accounts: Answering the Critics, Part II
Health Savings Accounts: Answering the Critics, Part III
Bush's Answer to Hillarycare
Patient Power: Over-the-Counter Drugs
Making HSAs Better
Patient Power: Access to Drugs
Bush Health Plan: Consumer-Driven Health Care
A Brief History of Health Savings Accounts
Health Savings Accounts: Myth vs. Fact
Two Cheers for the Bush Health Plan
Answering the Critics of Health Accounts
Lower Drug Costs for Seniors
Health Savings Accounts Are Crucial to Medicare Reform
Health Reimbursement Arrangements: Making a Good Deal Better
Why Are Health Costs Rising?
Three Avenues to Patient Power
Giving Patients More Control
Increasing Consumer Choice in Health Care: Five Steps Employers Can Take Now
Two Cheers For Bush Health Plan
MSAs for Everyone, Part III
Managing Health Care with the Internet
Health Insurance: Letting Employees Choose
MSAs for Everyone, Part I
MSAs for Everyone, Part II
Who's Afraid of Patient Choice?
Patient Power and the Internet
NCPA Special Publications:
Shopping for Health Care
BushCare - The answer to ClintonCare, and a very good one.
Time, Money and the Market for Drugs