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 Studies< Prev 1 2 3 4Consumer Choice in MedicareOctober, 16 2003 Future choices for Medicare beneficiaries must include options that give seniors more choice and control over their health spending. Consumer Choice Options for Prescription DrugsOctober, 13 2003 Nations across the globe are beginning to explore consumer choice options in health care. This paper by Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner and AEI scholar Joseph Antos explores ideas and options to engage market-forces in health care through competition and consumer choice.A Walk Through the Woods of Association Health Plans - Separating the Forest From the TreesOctober, 1 2003 The idea of Association Health Plans (AHPs) has become surprisingly contentious in Washington. The concept is simple on the face of it: Allow professional and business associations to offer health coverage to their members - individuals or small and medium-sized companies - so they can achieve some of the savings that large employers enjoy when they provide health insurance to their workers.Medicare SurveyJune, 21 2003 The Galen Institute's survey on voter attitudes toward Medicare and a drug benefit shows that the president has been right from the beginning in saying that a stand-alone drug benefit was a bad idea and resources should be put into improving the program overall.Avoiding the Pitfalls in Medicare ReformJune, 2 2003 Medicare helps to pay for the essential health care of more than 40 million elderly and disabled Americans, but it is a program in trouble. Benefits have not kept pace with the best in health care, and the program will not be able to meet the demands of aging baby boomers who will begin enrolling in 2011.Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Rollover: More Imperative Now Than EverMarch, 5 2002 In an ongoing effort by the Bush administration to implement a rollover component for Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), the FY2003 budget includes $441 million for such a rollover beginning in 2004 and another $23 million for an expansion of options. FSA rollover, as the policy initiative is called, would give health care consumers more options and provide a cost-containment incentive for health care expenditures.Six Questions Everyone Should Ask About Health System Reform: An Application of Basic EconomicsFebruary, 22 2002 This paper, written by American Medical Association Principal Economist Jesse Hixson, offers guidelines for achieving effective health system reform through free-market incentives.Health Care: Avoiding the Achilles Heel of Tax ReformFebruary, 1 2002 Many of the problems that politicians have been wrestling with for at least 20 years can be minimized and even solved by empowering consumers to transform the health care sector through free-market competition rather than regulation.Empowering Health Care Consumers Through Tax ReformSeptember, 1 1999 Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform, edited by Grace-Marie Arnett of the Galen Institute, contains a collection of essays by a group of leading health policy analysts who answer these questions and more. In this peer-reviewed book, published by the University of Michigan Press, the authors explore the intersection of health and tax policy to offer a road map for reform and paint a vision of a revived free-market health care system.
Uninsured Rates Rise Dramatically in States With Strictest Health Insurance RegulationsAugust, 14 1998 During the heated debate on health care reform several years ago, some states jumped ahead of the rest by aggressively regulating their health insurance markets to speed reform. The data are now in, and they show that these attempts have backfired by harming the very citizens they were designed to help. |
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