Candidates and Health Care Reform

Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are gearing up for a general election battle -- barring a surprise surge by Sen. Hillary Clinton -- in which they will offer very different visions for health care reform.

Loose Political Lips Can Sink Our Economy

Brian Lee Crowley Joins Galen Institute as Senior Fellow

The Galen Institute is pleased to announce that Brian Lee Crowley, Ph.D., the founding president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), is joining the institute as a visiting senior fellow. In his  new role, Brian will advance the Galen Institute’s work on public policy through speeches, conferences, and writing aimed chiefly at using the Canadian health care experience to shed light on the U.S. health policy debate.

The GOP's Prescription for Health Care

Health care has been a sleeper issue in the Republican presidential primaries. But as we heard in President Bush's State of the Union address last night, the GOP does have ideas -- big and transformative ideas designed to energize the free market to target many of the problems that plague our health sector.

A Professor's Guide: Free-Market Health Policy

These publications can provide a guide for educators teaching courses on health policy to help students better understand consumer-directed health care and free-market ideas in health policy.

Free-Market Alternative: Sharpening the Health-Care Debate

The debate will be different this time around. When Hillary Clinton first attempted an overhaul of our health sector, she was no learned hand at politics. But the health plan that her presidential campaign released last month is much more politically...

Toward Free-Market Health Care

Our health care sector must change to meet the challenges of a 21st century economy. Consumers, not just in the United States but in all developed countries, are demanding a much greater role in decisions involving their health care. People can find...

State of the Union Address

Here are samples of comments by health policy experts from the major public policy research organizations about the president's health reform proposal: The new tax deduction would eliminate one of the major hidden forces driving up health cost...