The Health-Care Mess: How Do We Climb Out?

Appeared in The Wall Street Journal July 22, 2006, Page A11

It was refreshing to read Andy Stern's acknowledgement in "Horse-and-Buggy Health Coverage" (editorial page, July 17) that we cannot rely on employment-based health insurance for our...

Citizens' Working Group on Health Care would raise taxes and expand government intrusion

Dear Editor: A group set up by Congress is recommending that the government guarantee health care for all Americans ("Group calls for universal health coverage," June 8). That may seem like a noble goal -- until you realize that what the Citizens' Health Care Working Group...

U.S. Industry is in the Crosshairs of Bad Tax Policy

U.S. automakers are blaming soaring health care expenses for compromising their global competitiveness and contributing to multi-billion dollar losses, factory closures, and layoffs. General Motors Chairman Rick Wagoner recently told...

Response to Malcolm Gladwell article in The New Yorker

To the editor: While Malcolm Gladwell is a gifted writer, reporter, and analyst, his most recent article, "The Moral-Hazard Myth," cites several questionable studies and examples: First, he writes "The leading cause of personal bankruptcies...

Reforming the Tax Treatment of Employment-Based Health Insurance

Tax reform is high on the policy agenda in this session of Congress, as the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform issues its report and as Congress prepares for the debate. One of the key issues that must be addressed is the generous tax break...

Tax Reform as the Road to Health Reform

The Heritage Foundation and the Galen Institute co-hosted a briefing on "Tax Reform as the Road to Health Reform" on Monday, June 20, 2005. Experts on both health and tax reform explained how the generous tax break for job-based health insurance...

Tax Reform as the Road to Health Reform

View Grace-Marie's presentation from a Galen Institute luncheon briefing on "Tax Reform as the Road to Health Reform." Click here to view the presentation....

Response to Robin Cook article in The New York Times

Dr. Robin Cook concludes in "Decoding Health Insurance" (op-ed, May 22) that genomics should move the United States toward a government-sponsored, single-payer health system because he says that is the only way "to pool risk for the entire country." But there is another way...