Election '08 Resources
Research from the Galen Institute
The Basic FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions on Health Policy and Responses from Our Pro-Market Perspective
A Profile of the Health Sector in the United States
The Tax Treatment of Health Insurance
Six Questions Everyone Should Ask About Health System Reform: An Application of Basic Economics
By Jesse S. Hixson, Ph.D., principal economist, American Medical Association
Commentary from the Galen Institute
We Need a National Market for Health Insurance
By Grace-Marie Turner in The Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2008
How Good Is Our Health Care System? (Compared to other countries)
By Grace-Marie Turner in the San Diego Union-Tribune, June 30, 2008
Candidates and Health Care Reform
by Grace-Marie Turner in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 13, 2008
Galen-recommended Resources
A Fork in the Road: Obama, McCain, and Health Care
Michael Tanner, Cato Institute
Government as ‘Competitor’: The Latest Prescription for Government Control of Health Care
by Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., The Heritage Foundation
Clarifying the Employer Tax Exclusion
by Robert Helms, American Enterprise Institute, in Health Affairs
Other Resources
Contingencies Magazine: Obama’s plan in his own words
Contingencies Magazine: McCain’s plan in his own words
The Partisan Divide – The McCain and Obama Plans for U.S. Health Care Reform
Jonathan Oberlander, Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine
