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The 10 Commandments for a Workable Health Insurance Exchange
The raging health reform debate on the public option has sucked all the air out of the room on the central question that we should be addressing: How can we fix the insurance market failure that prevents everyone from buying affordable health insurance that covers all...
The proper role of Government in Health Care Reform – Part 3: How Regulated Consumer Markets will Succeed
In Part 1, I describe the market failure that has caused all the major problems in our dysfunctional health care system. Part 2 recommends straightforward government regulatory reforms that will correct this failure. Now, Part 3 describes how these market reforms will...
The proper role of Government in Health Care Reform – Part 2: Creating a Health Care Market
I wrote in Part 1 that medical care is an economic good. More specifically, it is a consumer good delivered directly to patients, primarily in the form of services. Experience has taught us that the most effective, efficient, and fair way to create and distribute...