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NEW REPORT:
Rx NY: A Prescription for More Accessible Health Care in NY
by Tarren Bragdon

Comparing Public and Private Health Insurance: Would A Single-Payer System Save Enough to Cover the Uninsured?
by Benjamin Zycher

Why Has Longevity Increased More in Some States than in Others? The Role of Medical Innovation and Other Factors
by Frank R. Lichtenberg

The Human Cost of Federal Price Negotiations: The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit and Pharmaceutical Innovations

By Dr. Benjamin Zycher
 

In the News

· Who will fix America's broken health care system? With Regina Herzlinger and Don McCanne, The Real News Online, 5-08-08
· Wal-Mart sweetens drug plan, Gainesville Times, 5-08-08
· Meningitis Vaccine Boosts Immune Response, Wall Street Journal, 5-07-08
· Wal-Mart Expands Low-Price Drug Program, Target Follows, Fox 25 News, 5-07-08
· Wal-Mart expands low-price drug program, Associated Press, 5-05-08
· Health care goes digital with instant image access, ComputerWorld, 5-05-08
· Firms Adjust to Health-Care Law, Wall Street Journal, 5-05-08
· Cost of near-universal care rising in Massachusetts, Providence Business News, 5-05-08

NEWS ARCHIVE >>

Commentary

· Drafting doctors for ER duty, Walter Olson, PointOfLaw.com, 5-09-08
· Drug exec fights back, Boston Herald Editorial, 5-09-08
· High Costs, Carrie Lukas, National Review Online, 5-08-08
· Socialized health care ineffective policy, Ben Childs, The Santa Clara, 5-08-08
· What the Doctor Ordered, Sally Satel, National Review Online, 5-07-08
· McCain on health care: radical -- and right, Michael Tanner, Pioneer-Press, 5-06-08
· Attack of the Pharmascolds, David A. Shaywitz & Thomas P. Stossel, Weekly Standard, 5-12-08
· His health-care plan also makes most sense, Star Parker, Boston Herald, 5-05-08

COMMENTARY ARCHIVE >>

Research

· Squeezed: How Costs for Insuring Families are Outpacing Income, State Health Access Data Assistance Center, University of Minnesota, 5-04-08
· Embracing Disruption: How Consumers Are Transforming the U.S. Health Care System, Deloitte Development LLC, 5-03-08
· The Medicaid Regulations: Stopping the Abuse of Taxpayers' Dollars, Heritage Foundation, 5-02-08
· Three Cures for What's Ailing Long Term Health Care, Yankee Institute for Public Policy, 5-02-08
· What to Expect from Uniform Pricing of Health Care Services, Center of the American Experiment, 05-01-08
· Drug Reimportation's Dangerous Allure: A Misguided Cost-Control Measure Guaranteed to Harm Patient Care, Competitive Enterprise Institute, 4-30-08
· State Health Reform: Six Key Tests, Heritage Foundation, 4-28-08
· Health Care Reform: Design Principles for a Patient-Centered, Consumer-Based Market, Heritage Foundation, 4-28-08

RESEARCH ARCHIVE >>

In the Media!
Watch & listen to select interviews with Manhattan Institute health scholars

· Paul Howard on "The Small Business Advocate" with host Jim Blasingame, 04-11-08 (Click here to listen)
· David Gratzer on WNET's "Inside Trenton," 04-05-08
(Click to watch: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
· Regina Herzlinger on "The Small Business Advocate with Jim Blasingame," 02-29-08 (Click to listen)
· Regina Herzlinger on Fox Business Channel's "Cavuto," 02-22-08 (Click here to watch)
· Regina Herzlinger on CNN's "Broken Government: Critical Healthcare," 01-31-08 (Click here to watch)
· Regina Herzlinger on KGIL's "Dr. Drew Pinsky Show," 01-15-08 (Click here to listen)
· Paul Howard on WABC's Channel 7 News, 09-17-07 (Click here to watch)
· David Gratzer on CNBC's "Closing Bell," 06-28-07 (Click here to watch)
· David Gratzer on National Public Radio's "To The Point," 06-22-07 (Click here to listen)
· Paul Howard on National Public Radio's "Marketplace," 01-03-07 (Click here to listen)

 
NEW SECOND OPINION!
Experts Discuss the Issue of Medical Research Funding Sources in our "Second Opinion" Expert Forum!

This Week's Expert Panel:   • Senator Tom Coburn
  • David Gratzer
  • Paul Howard
  • Sally Satel
Click here to read their second opinions.

New York's Uninsured: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Transcript Now Available!

Click here to read the transcript from the conference jointly hosted by the Manhattan Institute's Center for Medical Progress and the New York State Health Foundation, including commentary by distinguished panelists and remarks by keynote speaker Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
 
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Attack of the Pharmascolds
by David A. Shaywitz, Thomas P. Stossel, M.D.
May 12, 2008
 

NEW PODCAST:

• Senior fellow Paul Howard interviews Senator Tom Coburn about his innovative proposal for health care reform.

"We're going to go back to where the patient and the doctor make the decisions about what is in the best interest of the patient. And that means we're going to consider economic issues as well—not just this blind "It doesn't matter what it costs, we're going to do it."
—Senator Tom Coburn

PODCAST ARCHIVE >>
SUGGESTED READING:
Markets and Health Care

Who Killed Health Care Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem—And the Consumer-Driven Cure
Regina Herzlinger
(McGraw-Hill, June 2007)

THE CURE: HOW CAPITALISM CAN SAVE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE

Dr. David Gratzer (Encounter Books, October 2006)
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