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Friday, June 10, 2011
 
 
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Fighting for Smarter Reform
 

After a year of political wrangling and two thousand-page bills that promise more than they can deliver, it is time for a more prudent approach to health care reform. Because Americans made it clear that they will not tolerate a top-down health reform that further centralizes power and decision making in Washington, AEI scholars continue to actively fight for smarter reform.


‣‣‣ In an AEI Special Report, Joseph Antos and Thomas Miller outline what shoud be done to reform the US health care system. [Key Findings]


‣‣‣ And for the one-year anniversary of the health care overhaul, Thomas Miller co-authored a book, Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America. The important, eye-opening book offers the first in-depth examination of the new law's impact on American individuals, families, and businesses. [Learn More]

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Feds to Biotech Firms: Shut Up
 
The FDA is restricting the speech of private drug firms. This may violate the First Amendment rights of drugs companies.
 
There's No Limit on Irresponsibility
 
Medicare should not be off-limits in the debate about the debt ceiling. Government promises regarding Medicare cannot be kept and it is time for Congress to find a solution.
 
PPACA's Effects on Maintaining Health Coverage and Jobs: A Review of the Health Care Law's Regulatory Burden
 
The PPACA's rate review and MLR provisions represent costly, bureaucratic interference with insurers' legitimate business decisions and state regulatory prerogatives. This will do little to enhance competition in health insurance markets and the availability and affordability of health insurance.
 
Two-Way Truce Can Improve Health Care
 
Freshman in Congress need to make health care a two-way truce. There is actually a huge acreage of common ground in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that can and should be the basis for debate and ultimately for compromise.
 
 
U.S. Markets for Vaccines Characteristics, Case Studies, and Controversies
 
This volume offers a balanced and comprehensive snapshot of the changing landscape for vaccine markets.  
 
Uncle Sam, M.D. AEI Scholars on Health Care and Pharmaceutical Reform
 
This collection of essays provides an indication of the range and depth of AEI’s work in health care reform and pharmaceutical policy.  
 
Innovation and Technology Adoption in Health Care Markets
 
Anupam B. Jena and Tomas J. Philipson argue that further use of cost-effectiveness analysis to curb health care spending may do more harm than good.  
 
 
PAST EVENTS
 
 
There have been repeated warnings from across the political spectrum that Medicare spending will bankrupt the country unless it is curbed. AEI's Joseph Antos and a panel of experts will discuss what it would take to overcome political and technical roadblocks to necessary action.
 
 
AEI visiting scholar Robert Kaestner and his coauthor Anthony Lo Sasso, both professors at the University of Illinois at Chicago, challenge the underlying assumptions of the health law passed last March in a new study.
 
 
With no end to the obesity epidemic in sight, several states and cities have proposed soda taxes on sugar-sweetened soda and other beverages. At this conference, experts John E. Calfee of AEI and Jamie Chriqui of the University of Illinois at Chicago will analyze the evidence on soda taxes and other measures.