Research/Policy Issues
Health Policy Digest - July 15, 2008
July 15, 2008
AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM TO SOON BE UNSUSTAINABLE
Medical spending and price increases are rising exponentially more than national income or the rate of inflation, says Devon Herrick...
NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS/ONENEWSNOW.COM
Prescription drugs are not to blame for unsustainable growth in government health spending, say Mark Rovere and Brett Skinner...
FRASER INSTITUTE
DRUG COMPETITION -- "BIG-BOX STYLE"
Prescription drug policies that allow price competition through market forces can only improve the consumer's access to medicines and increase the affordability of drugs, say Mark Rovere and Brett Skinner...
FRASER INSTITUTE
POLICY BENEFITS THAT MASS. REQUIRES COST $1.3 BILLION A YEAR
In Massachusetts, health care mandates translate to a cost of roughly $1,300 annually per employee in a family health care plan, say business groups...
BOSTON GLOBE
NHS SUED FOR MILLIONS OVER BUGS
The National Health Service -- Great Britain's government-run health care system -- is being sued for tens of millions of pounds in damages over bugs picked up in its hospitals...
THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN