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This monthly commentary, published by PRI’s Health Care Studies, examines public policies that impact America’s health-care system, explains how these policies destroy access to affordable, high-quality health care, and provides reforms that rely on market-based solutions.

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Volume Five – 2007

May	Health, Charity, and Leviathan
April	Comprehending the Connector
March	Consumerism is in Our Future: Three New Books on Health Reform
February	The Uninsured Versus The Insured: Who Subsidizes Whom? (revised)
January	Bulletproof? Health Savings Accounts in 2007 and 2008

Volume Four – 2006

December	Holiday Season Prescription for Trans-Fatty Temptations: Leave Portly Government Policies Out
November	Eenie, Meeny, Miney Mandate: Compulsory Private Health Insurance is Not Universal Choice
October	Mending the Medical Malpractice Mess
September	Medical Tourism: Why Americans Take Medical Vacations Abroad
August	Taming the Medicaid Monster: The President Pushes Progress but States Shirk Solutions
July	How Good Health Legislation Dies: the Ongoing Fight to Make Health Care Better and Freer for All Americans
June	Squeezing the Balloon: The Futility of Pharmaceutical Cost Containment
May	Health Privacy in an Interconnected, Electronic Society
April	Health Quality and Price Disclosure By Government: A Transparently Bad Idea
March	Three Strikes for Health Freedom: A Review of Recent Books on Health Reform
February	Republican HillaryCare: The Medicare Drug Benefit’s Prescription for Perverse Incentives.
January	2006: The Year of the Health Savings Account

Volume Three – 2005

December	Obesity and the State: The Skinny on the War Against Fat
November	Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Adverting: What Does the Literature (Not) Say?
October	Socialized Health Care Violates Fundamental Rights
September	The Agony of Angleton: The Vioxx Decision is Worse than You Think
August	How Many Governors Does It Take To Reform Medicaid?

Volume Two – 2003

October	Last-Minute Menace
September	Cheaper Doesn't Mean Better. Ask a Canadian
August	A Beautiful Drug Dilemma
July	PBM rebates aren't the issue: Copays, formularies should get the boot; leave drug decisions to doctors and their patients
April	The Death of Copays Would Be Copacetic
March	Annual Report Shows Medicare on a Slippery Slope
February	Will Mediscare Frighten Seniors in 2003?
January	How Health-Care Reform Will Spur the Economy

Volume One – 2002

December	Hospitals Are Just Playing the Medicare Game
November	If It’s Good Enough for Strom Thurmond...
October	“Giveback” This Entire Price-Control Scheme
September	Weakening Drug Patents Will Kill Off Medicines And Patients
August	Drug Profits For A Better Tomorrow
July	In Consumer Empowerment, Out Social Insurance
June	Bring On The Real Competition
May	Medicare Price-Fixing Comes Home to Roost
April	Why Low-Income Workers Don’t Have Health Insurance
March	Daschle and Democrats Play Prevent Defense with the Uninsured
February	The Trust Fund That Wasn’t There
January	COBRA’s Bite Will Hurt Economic Recovery

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