http://www.catocampus.org/tag info@catocampus.org http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/391.html From Agoraphilia. The WHO rankings, by purporting to measure the efficacy of healthcare systems, implicitly takes all differences in health outcomes not explained by spending or literacy and attributes them entirely to healthcare system performance. Nothing else, from tobacco use to nutrition to sheer luck, is taken into account. 674@http://www.catocampus.org Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:29:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/391.html Cato's health policy work is designed to show that the only way to make health care of ever-increasing quality available to an ever-increasing number of consumers is to put consumers in charge of their health care dollars and decisions. With that in mind, Cato has worked to familiarize the public, media and policymakers with the free-market alternative to managed care and single-payer plans?Äîhealth savings accounts (HSAs). 197@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/391.html Michael Cannon, Cato's director of health care studies, has assembled a reading list compliling comprehensive literature on the issue of health care.. 198@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/391.html The dominant view in health policy is that greater government involvement is required to finance and deliver high-quality medical care. The Healthy Competition Newsletter will present what is a minority view in health policy, but one that is widely accepted in other policy spheres: that individual choice and free markets do the best job of providing high-quality products and services to consumers. 199@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/391.html Cato has consistently argued that Medicare cannot be saved by raising taxes and cutting benefits; rather, Medicare requires market-based structural reforms. Here you'll find a wide variety of papers detailing Medicare's long-term fiscal problems, the costs of the recent Medicare prescription drug benefit, and various reform proposals. 200@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/391.html Medicaid has a structure of incentives that is both costly and inneficient. Cato argues that the federal government should follow the example of welfare reform and devolve control over Medicaid to the states. 201@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/391.html Cato's research on Health Saving Accounts seeks ways to improve access to consumer-driven health care plans so that patients and doctors?Äînot third party payers?Äîhave the power to make crucial medical decisions. 202@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT