The Future of Health Care presentation

• The future of health care

"Facts and Fallacies" behind some of the statistics being used by some who advocate for the expansion of government's role in the financing of health care

Illinois General Assembly update

• Update from ISAHU contract lobbyist Phil Lackman
• Governor's emergency health care expansion blocked (Crain's Chicago Business - November 13, 2007)

2008 Presidential Candidate Health Care Proposals: Side-by-Side Summary

• www.health08.org/sidebyside.cfm
• Dr. Goodman's Health Alert (November 5, 2007) - Grading the Candidates

"Whose Body Is It, Anyway?  Sick in America" - Special aired on ABC-TV's 20/20 program on September 14, 2007

Market-oriented healthcare policy / reform

• Living Without Health Insurance - Why Every American Needs Coverage (Galen Institute)
• Ten Principles of Health Care Policy - Heartland Institute
• State Premium Subsidy Programs (National Association of Health Underwriters)
• Creating an HSA State (2007) (Center for Health Transformation)
• Administrative cost differentials between public and private health insurance
• Health Care Consumerism - Myths versus Facts

Recent state government initiatives for expanding access to private health insurance

Recent state government premium subsidy initiatives aimed at individuals

• Utah’s UPP program - http://health.utah.gov/upp/faqs.htmState of Washington’s Basic Health program – http://www.basichealth.hca.wa.gov/
• Oregon’s Family Health Insurance Assistance Program (FHIAP) -  http://www.oregon.gov/OPHP/FHIAP/member.shtml

Recent state government premium subsidy initiatives aimed at businesses

• Oklahoma’s O-EPIC Employer-Sponsored Insurance program - http://www.oepic.ok.gov/index.aspx
• Kansas - http://www.ksrevenue.org/taxcredits-employer.htm
• Kentucky ICARE program - http://doi.ppr.ky.gov/kentucky/docs.asp?Divid=28
• Healthy New York - Indirect subsidy to small businesses through a reinsurance mechanism http://www.ins.state.ny.us/website2/hny/english/hny.htm

Market developments

• Customer Health Care
• Revolution Health
• Is there a role for markets in health care? (June 14, 2007)

   

Market-oriented thought leaders - In the 3 years that I have been associated with Chicago-based Heartland Institute as a health care policy advisor I have met some really great people in the policy world.  My personal “short list” of 17 market-oriented thought leaders on the subject of health care policy include the following individuals:

1. Mr. Ron Bachman, Healthcare Visions, Inc., This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
2. Mr. Tarren Bragdon (“Mr. Dirigo”), Director of Health Reform Initiatives, The Maine Heritage Policy Center, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
3. Dr. John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), http://www.ncpa.org/abo/staff/jcgoodman.html
4. Devon Herrick, Ph. D., Senior Fellow on Health Care, National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), http://www.ncpa.org/abo/staff/dherrick.html
5. Dr. Regina E. Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, (http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&facEmId=rherzlinger)
6. Dr. Arnold Kling - http://arnoldkling.com/
7. Dr. Merrill Matthews, Resident Scholar, Institute for Policy Innovation, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
8. Ms. Nina Owcharenko - http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/NinaOwcharenko.cfm
   
9. Dr. Mark Pauly, Wharton School professor (http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/pauly.html).
10. Ms. Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Institute, http://www.pacificresearch.org/about/team.html#pipes
11. Dr. Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School (http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&facEmId=mporter&loc=extn
12. Mr. Roy Ramthun, HSA Consulting Services, LLC, former Treasury Department official and White House senior health policy advisor
13. Mr. Greg Scandlen, founder of Consumers for Health Care Choices, http://www.chcchoices.org/about.html#founder
14. Mr. Michael Tanner, Director of Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute, http://www.cato.org/people/tanner.html
15. Mr. Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute, http://www.cato.org/people/cannon.html
16. Ms. Grace-Marie Turner, President, Galen Institute, http://www.galen.org/fileuploads/Grace_Marie_Turner.pdf
17. Mr. J.P. Wieske, Director of State Affairs, Council for Affordable Health Insurance, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it