JULY 13, 2011 Government boards and drug price controls threaten to throw sand in the gears of medical progress. By KENNETH C. FRAZIER Mr. Frazier is president and CEO of Merck & Co. Americans generally agree that our economic future depends on nurturing new ideas. “The first step in winning the future,” as President Obama […]
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JULY 12, 2011 . By PETER WALLISON Mr. Wallison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and dissented from the majority report. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Far from being a marginal player, Fannie Mae was the source of the decline in mortgage underwriting standards that
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JULY 12, 2011 The savings from government funding cuts to graduate medical education aren’t worth the negative effect on patients. By HERBERT PARDES AND EDWARD D. MILLERDr. Pardes is president and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Miller is dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine Seeking to reduce the federal budget, Democratic and Republican
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JULY 11, 2011 Relying on unelected bureaucrats, such as ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, to ratchet down Medicare price controls won’t control overutilization. By MERRILL MATTHEWS AND MARK LITOW Almost all discussions about Medicare reform ignore one key factor: Medicare utilization is roughly 50% higher than private health-insurance utilization, even after adjusting for age and
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July 12, 2011 Unknown Unknowns By Thomas Sowell When Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense, he coined some phrases about knowledge that apply far beyond military matters. Secretary Rumsfeld pointed out that there are some things that we know that we know. He called those “known knowns.” We may, for example, know how many aircraft
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July 10, 2011 By John C. Goodman John C. Goodman is president and founder of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a free-market think tank established in 1983. Goodman’s ideas on health policy can also be found at his own blog, where he provides daily analysis and lively discussion on a wide range of health
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JULY 7, 2011 Jobs in the Pipeline The EPA tries to scuttle oil transport from Canada’s tar sands. With 9.1% unemployment and gasoline prices in the stratosphere, President Obama must sometimes wish that some big corporation would suddenly show up and offer a shovel-ready, multibillion-dollar project to create 100,000 jobs and reduce U.S. reliance on
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“On June 9th, Barack Obama signed an executive order to create a “White House Rural Council.” What is it? Why does rural America suddenly need 25 federal agencies “coordinating” sustainability, resources and whatever? Section 1. describes the “purpose” for this Rural council, to which 25 federal agency department heads belong, including Treasury, EPA, Commerce and
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