In other words, reducing costs means rationing the care of those who currently have private insurance and Medicare. — Sally Pipes
Read Health ‘Reformers’ Ignore Facts and call your congressman.
The Democrats’ case to expand government health care is so full of holes that passing it quickly is their only hope. If Americans slow down and ask questions, they will be hard-put to come up with answers.
In fact, if members of Congress slow down long enough to read the detailed reports of their own Congressional Budget Office (CBO) — or even its director’s recent Senate testimony — they will understand that many of the slogans they use to justify government intervention are false.
Ms. Pipes is president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of “The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care” (Pacific Research Institute, 2008).
The book’s foreword is by Steve Forbes: “For anyone interested in getting to the core of America’s health care troubles, this is the perfect book,” he writes. “And for health care policy makers, it should be required reading.”
In her 182-page book, Ms. Pipes takes on ten popular myths about the state of health care in America. The final chapter lays out several patient-centered prescriptions for reform.
List of Chapters
Foreword by Steve Forbes
Myth One: Government Health Care Is More Efficient
Myth Two: We’re Spending Too Much on Health Care
Myth Three: Forty-Six Million Americans Can’t Get Health Care
Myth Four: High Drug Prices Drive Up Health Care Costs
Myth Five: Importing Drugs Would Reduce Health Care Costs
Myth Six: Universal Coverage Can Be Achieved by Forcing Everyone to Buy Insurance
Myth Seven: Government Prevention Programs Reduce Health Care Costs
Myth Eight: We Need More Government to Insure Poor Americans
Myth Nine: Health Information Technology Is a Silver Bullet for Reducing Costs
Myth Ten: Government-Run Health Care Systems in Other Countries are Better and Cheaper than America’s
Solutions: Markets, Consumer Choice, and Innovation
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