Category: John C Goodman

John C. Goodman comments at the National Journal's blog on the health care 'grandfather rules' recently designated by the Obama administration.

At The Health Care Blog, Dr. Goodman explains why for-profit health care systems are more effective.

Dr. Goodman looks ahead to where we should go from here on health care reform in Health Care News.

A Health Affairs commentary by Dr. Goodman explores the problems of health care cost sharing.

The National Journal blog includes John Goodman's view on the future of consumer directed health care.

In The Wall Street Journal, John C. Goodman looks ahead to the uncertain future of employer sponsored insurance.

In this Kaiser Health News column, John Goodman writes: "How many times have you heard President Obama say, "Health insurers won't be able to drop your coverage just because you get sick?"

Dr. Goodman takes a closer look at the real cost of preventative care for the National Journal.

In the Health Affairs blog, Dr. Goodman gives an analysis of the problems with individual insurance mandates.

John Goodman warns of four misunderstood aspects of Obamacare in a featured piece in the first edition of Healthcare Reform Magazine.

John Goodman is interviewed for the latest Fortune on the divergent state pricing of individual health insurance.

In today's National Review, John Goodman examines how the major issues and language of health care reform have changed in the past year.

Dr. Goodman explains how buying insurance across state lines would increase competition and help consumers

NCPA President John C. Goodman proposes ten reforms addressing the problems of health care for preexisting conditions, while improving costs, quality and access.

In a reformed health care system, the chronically ill – along with their doctors, employers and insurers – should find lower-cost, higher-quality, more-accessible care in their economic self-interest. John Goodman explains how that's possible in his latest Health Care News commentary.

If the president is serious about building a health care system that delivers more quality choices at lower cost for every American, here’s where he should start… says John C. Goodman.

On the Health Affairs health blog, John Goodman outlines ten ways the chronically ill can effectively cut health care costs.

Kaiser Health News features NCPA President John Goodman's commentary on who really does and doesn't understand the administration's health reform proposals.

No one really likes any of the various health care reform proposals passed by Congress. Why would the majority of Members of Congress vote for bills that no one really likes and no one thinks will control costs or improve quality and possibly not even improve access to care?

Welcome to Future World, where the average income is $100,000 a year and people need only a 20-hour work week to earn it.  Since the present day, medical science has progressed even faster than income.  There are bionic limbs; gene-specific therapies to cure cancer, heart disease and other ailments; cell regeneration; antiaging drugs; and all manner of other improvements that could — if fully used — extend life spans to 125 years.

Prior to last Saturday's vote, The Wall Street Journal aptly called the House bill "the worst bill ever." The bill is enormously expensive, but it is full of perverse incentives – an issue already plaguing our health care systems.

Why is Washington having so much trouble reforming health care? And why, if Congress passes a major overhaul, are the problems of cost, quality, and access almost certain to get worse?

Sifting out what's right in Sarah Palin's 'death panels' hyperbole

'They're un-American," says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "They're spreading lies and distortions," says senior White House adviser David Axelrod. They are "being funded and organized by out-of-district special-interest groups and insurance companies," says the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

How can Washington have spent so much time debating health care and still have failed to come up with a reasonable reform? By starting from the wrong premises. There are three basic questions to be asked about the design of any health-care system.