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Public-private competition can lay the groundwork for changes inrevenue-estimating transparency practices, but Congress can set therules, and a Blue Ribbon Commission sponsored by a governmentagency, nonprofit group, or accounting or law firm might also beuseful. One thing is sure: Change in revenue-estimatingtransparency is needed at both the Treasury Department and theJoint Committee on Taxation.
The problems of America's health care system can best be addressedthrough market-based solutions. The evidence indicates that undernational health insurance, the promise of coverage becomes healthrationing, access to universal coverage means delays in access tocare, official fairness yields to favoritism by officials, freedomof choice becomes coerced conformity, and democratic deliberationis replaced by bureaucratic decision-making.
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Whatever merits one may ascribe to the recently enacted Medicarelaw, it has aggravated, not controlled, rapidly rising Medicarecosts. Its major feature is a massive entitlement expansion, but italso embodies some bad health care policy: There is no need for thefederal government to displace existing drug coverage, pre-empt newprivate-sector options, or accelerate the loss of employer-baseddrug coverage.
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