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Congress should stop, go back to the drawing board, and develop newand innovative policies that promote competition and expandpersonal choice of private plans, treatments, and doctors withinthe framework of a free market.

Assessing the Patients' Bill of RightsPanel discussion with Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., John S. Hoff, andRobert Charrow.

Medicare reforms are needed to secure value for patients, enhance the program’s solvency, and reduce its burden on current and future taxpayers.

In the name of patient protection, Congress is poised to make theproblems in America's current health care system even worse. 

The Patient's Bill of Rights: A Prescription for Massive HealthRegulation

In response to public opposition to enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), President Obama assured Americans that if they were happy with their current health insurance, nothing in the PPACA would force them to change their coverage. This promise has been broken. Not only does the PPACA itself require changes in existing coverage, but regulations issued by the Administration further undercut the ability of Americans to continue with their current insurance plans. Th...

Advocates of a "public option" government insurance plan assure usthat it would compete with private insurers on a level playingfield. In reality, the "competition" would be rigged, thegovernment plan would likely capture a large percentage of theinsurance market, and the result would be a giant step toward asingle-payer, nationalized health care system much like those inEurope and Canada.