Category: Health Care

Health Wonk Review – Cites John Goodman's article stating that everyone should have access to health insurance, and notes that real insurance involves a pooling of risks.

Health Leaders Media: Recent NCPA report in story on how health care costs will rise

Forbes: Goodman featured in article on free-riders and heath care reform.

Benefits Selling: Americans remain consistently split on health reform – and fickle on the specifics. Why recent polls may (or may not) indicate major change ahead.

The Health Care Blog – Who will be hurt the most by the health reform legislation Congress passed last year? Answer: The most vulnerable segments of society: the poor, the elderly and the disabled.

AOL’s Daily Finance: Quotes Devon Herrick on his concierge health care research.

 FOXNews.com: Goodman on the impact of health care waivers on wages and jobs.

The Health Care Blog: NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham's commentary on the frustrations of health insurance billing.

FOX News Channel:  Story on the jump in health care waivers from Brett Baier's Special Report, with interview from John Goodman.

Yahoo! Shine – Here are 7 tips to help you save money-and your sanity-while still getting the best possible care you can.

Kaiser Health News – When President Barack Obama addresses the nation in his State of the Union message, the big topic on the minds of many in the public policy community will be out of control entitlement spending. Will the president follow the lead of Christine Romer, the former head of his Council for Economic Advisors, and endorse the recommendations of his own bipartisan deficit commission, chaired by former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., and former Clinton White House aide Erskine Bowles? Or will he punt?

The Morning Consult: A new analysis from NCPA's Devon Herrick shows minimum wage and lower income workers will face the greatest risks from health care reform.

Health Affairs Blog: John Goodman explains value-based health insurance benefits and economic incentives

Investor's Business Daily: Quotes John Goodman's research on the number of Americans denied health insurance.

The Health Care Blog: John Goodman's proposal on fixing the ten biggest flaws in the health care reform law.

The Hill: Pamela Villarreal's new study "Taxing Tobacco by Risk" was featured on The Hill's "Healthwatch."

USATODAY: Is the health reform program a job killer?  John Goodman and the USA Today Editorial Board take either side in today's "Opposing View."

The Health Care Blog – Out of 310 million Americans, only 8,000 people have the problem given as the principal reason for spending almost $1 trillion, creating more than 150 regulatory agencies and causing perhaps 150 million or more people to change the coverage they now have.

John Goodman provides answers to a variety of questions about what comes next with the new health care reform law.

FOX News Channel: In a FOX & Friends interview this morning, Dr. Goodman outlined how the Baby Boomer retirement wave will further challenge future Medicare funding and services.

The Health Care Blog – I believe I am one the few commentators on the Internet who routinely compares the fields of health and education. The reason: lessons from one field are often applicable to the other.

Health Care News – The number of consumer driven health care plans continued to grow this year.

The Health Care Blog:  Dr. Goodman on a health care payment system that just doesn't work.