January, 2007

Of Rationing, Trade-offs, and Morality

by Jonathan Cohn
The Conversation
January 26th, 2007

A lot has been said about health care since my last post, and not just in this space. Indeed, I hope my fellow contributors, along with my readers, will forgive this delayed response. I would have answered sooner, but I was busy tracking down the details of President Bush’s new health care plan. I won’t [...]

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Managed Competition, if You Can Keep It

by Clark C. Havighurst
The Conversation
January 24th, 2007

This discussion has gone in so many directions that it is hard to find a way to wrap it up. Unfortunately, President Bush’s latest proposal is such a pitiful response to a huge problem that I don’t even want to talk about it. Instead, let me embrace, with Matthew Holt, the basic Enthoven managed-competition model, [...]

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