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Health scholars

Joseph Antos Wilson H. Taylor Scholar Research areas: Federal budget policy, Health care policy and financing, ACA

 

Scott Gottlieb Resident Fellow Research areas: Trends in medicine, FDA policies, Medical technology development, CMS policies

 

Sally Satel Resident Scholar Research areas: Political trends in Medicine, Mental health/Transplant/ Domestic drug policy

 

Ramesh Ponnuru Visiting Fellow Research areas: Conservatives and health care policy

 

Tomas J. Philipson Visiting Scholar Research areas: Economics of pharmaceuticals, Health care trends

James C. Capretta Visiting Fellow Research areas: Market-based alternatives to the ACA

 

Thomas P. Miller Resident Scholar Research areas: Market-based alternatives to the ACA, Health insurance regulation

 

Roger Bate Visiting Scholar Research areas: international environmental and health agreements, Counterfeit pharmaceuticals

 

Thomas Peter Stossel Visiting Scholar Research areas: Medical innovation, Health care and health care policy

 

Joel M. Zinberg Visiting Scholar Research areas: Health policy, Health care reform, Practice of medicine, ACA

Headlines and Highlights

PTSD in the movies
Sally Satel, AEIdeas
Since its official recognition by the psychiatric establishment in 1980, post-traumatic stress disorder has expanded beyond the confines of the clinic.

New York innovates in Medicaid –but ignores a key member of the team
Joseph Antos, Yevgeniy Feyman, The Health Care Blog
New York has an opportunity to make real improvements to its Medicaid program; but it is leaving out key health care providers which might be best positioned to cut costs and improve value.

Rational rollout of new medicines for diseases of poverty
Roger Bate, AEI Economic Perspectives
Increasing access to medicines for diseases that primarily affect the poor, such as malaria and tuberculosis, involves a complex interplay of private- and public-sector efforts—some of which are often ignored in public debates.

As you were saying…gift ban keeps on giving grief
Thomas Stossel, Boston Herald
The gift ban and Physician Payments Sunshine Act are offensive. The principal use of payment disclosures to date has been to embarrass, often unfairly.

Bringing effective competition to New York’s health care system
Joseph Antos, New York’s Next Health Care Revolution
The New York State health care system has both an opportunity and a pressing need to transform itself into an efficient, high-performing system that offers top value to consumers.

The King v. Burwell bogeyman
Joel M. Zinberg, City Journal
Disallowing federal subsidies will not, as the conventional wisdom claims, lead to unavoidable insurance-market collapse or unconstitutional coercion of the states. The justices should decide King v. Burwell by interpreting the statute as written.

How many people has Obamacare really insured?
Scott Gottlieb, Forbes
So far, even if you accept the most optimistic math, Obamacare is hardly the unmitigated success that its many apostles proclaim.

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