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January 11, 2002

While the issues for the health care debate in 2002 will be familiar - tax credits for displaced workers, the patients' bill of rights, and a drug benefit for Medicare - the terms of the debate clearly are shifting toward consumer-friendly options. In a...




July 15, 2001

Mobile Register   President Bush has taken a halting step toward Medicare modernization in listing reform principles and backing a drug discount card for seniors, but a bolder approach is needed to seize the initiative for the transformative change...




December 28, 2000

The Washington Times   Facing the November election, a bipartisan Congress in October passed a bad bill establishing a highly questionable drug-import scheme that ostensibly dealt with the "crisis" of high prescription-drug prices. President Clinto...




November 3, 2000

The Bridge ForumA Periodic look at issues in the US presidential race ALEXANDRIA, Va.--George W. Bush has taken a courageous, although politically risky, approach to providing a prescription drug benefit for Medicare. He acknowledges Medicare is in dir...




November 3, 2000

Paired commentaries by David Kendall of the Progressive Policy Institute and Grace-Marie Arnett of the Galen Institute, both Consensus Group members. View from David Kendall, Senior Fellow for Health Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute. Only Ni...




September 10, 2000

As we enter the 21st century, the United States is poised to lead the world in the next battle for freedom, to chart a new frontier in the search for miracle drugs unlike any we have ever hoped for, dreamed of, or even imagined. Medical researchers are ma...




September 1, 2000

Gov. George W. Bush has proposed a Medicare reform plan that is based on sound policy. It would modernize Medicare, in particular by providing drug coverage for those who need it. Bush has taken a politically courageous stance and challenges those who ins...




July 5, 2000

The Medicare caldron is boiling once again, and the White House appears ready to use it to scald Republicans at the ballot box again next year. This time, however, a few key Democrats may spoil the soup. Hopes collapsed last week that the high-powered N...




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