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 Commentaries1 2 3 4 5 Next >May, 13 2008
Hidden Health Costs The Times' lead article, "Even the Insured Feel the Strain of Health Costs" (May 4), perpetuates the myth that employers are largely paying for their workers' health insurance. This benefit is actually part of a worker's overall compensation package, but if the employer writes the check, it doesn't show up as taxable income to the employee (courtesy of Section 106 of the Internal Revenue Code).
May, 13 2008
Candidates and Health Care Reform
April, 29 2008
Medicare Forum HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt gave a visionary but chilling speech about the looming threat that Medicare presents to taxpayers, to our economy, and to other government responsibilities during a major forum we co-sponsored in Washington on April 29 with the American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation.
April, 17 2008
Patent Reform Act Would Hurt Small Business Owners Small business entrepreneurs beware. The U.S. Senate is preparing to debate patent reform legislation that’s designed to aid tech titans but which could trample independent inventors in the process.
April, 3 2008
Congressional Testimony on Medicaid Integrity Grace-Marie Turner testfied at a hearing on "H.R. 5613, Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008" before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health.
March, 28 2008
Loose Political Lips Can Sink Our EconomyIt would take much more than a weak dollar and the sub-prime mortgage collapse to shake confidence in an economy as strong as the United States is.March, 25 2008
Brian Lee Crowley Joins Galen Institute as Senior Fellow
March, 4 2008
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. 1 2 3 4 5 Next > |
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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.