The December 2009 issue of Health Care News reports on the Senate Finance Committee’s October vote to send health care reform legislation to the Senate floor … and on important studies that say insurers and the insured would be hurt by the plan.
Also in this issue:
* Expanding Medicaid could have massive ramifications for state budgets.
* Labor unions have much to gain and much to lose from reform—are they shifting costs to average Americans?
* Correcting Medicare fraud is cited as a major element of paying for expanded government health care, but there are doubts it can be done.
* Canada’s health care system is under fire because of a recent decision denying medication to cancer patients, and a new book details the system’s flaws.
* The current reform plans offered by Congress and the president neglect the reality of economic incentives.
Benjamin Domenech is the founder and publisher of The Federalist and a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute.
