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Week of June 29th, 2009

Health Issues

Health Issues

REFORM NEEDS HEALTHY LIFE INCENTIVES

Sen. Kennedy doesn't want health insurers to reward good behavior, says Scott E. Harrington, a professor of health care management and insurance and risk management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Federal Spending & Budget Issues

Federal Spending & Budget Issues

FISCAL POLICY AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY

A return to Keynesian economic policy will not bring us economic prosperity, says the late economist Gerald W. Scully, a former senior fellow with the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

Taxes

Taxes

NOT-SO-SWEET EXCISE TAXES

Excise taxes are regressive, says D. Sean Shurtleff, a policy analyst with the NCPA...

National Center for Policy Analysis

Health Issues

Health Issues

WILL HEALTH CARE REFORM REALLY PAY OFF?

If doctors and patients don't change what they are doing, we can be fairly confident that total health care spending will rise -- and probably by a lot, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

FOXBUSINESS.COM

Health Issues

Health Issues

WHY IT'S EASY TO STEAL FROM MEDICARE

Arrests in Detroit and Miami are another argument against importing to the rest of the health economy the model that enabled these scams, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL