Paperwork Would Impede Health Reform

Nearly 98,000 Iowans with health insurance that's compatible with a health savings account could get slapped with new paperwork requirements from Congress. Created in 2004, HSAs are a proven way to make insurance more affordable and to give people more control over their health spending. Today, more than 6 million Americans have these plans, and thanks to HSAs, 1.6 million Americans have left the ranks of the uninsured.

Free-Market Alternative

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 attuned and lacks the hubris of those 1,342 pages of legislation the White House dropped on Congress 14 years ago. Today’s talking points (at variance with the actual details of her plan) stress choice, affordable private insurance, and no new government bureaucracy.

Published in National Review Online.  

Customer Health Care

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Letter to the Editor of the Los Angeles Times

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