This is the section on health from the 2025 Task Force summary:
10. Health:
a. A funder-provider model should be reintroduced in the hospital sector, allowing much greater private sector involvement in the provision of taxpayer-funded services.
b. Universal (unrelated to income or health status) subsidies for doctors’ visits should be abolished.
c. Subsidies for prescription pharmaceuticals should be substantially reduced, with [...]

I see the Democrats have reintroduced the “public option” (i.e. State Health Insurance) back into their health reform bill a mere couple of weeks after being unable to get such a bill through the Senate Finance Committee. They never give up, do they? It is highly unlikely that they will keep all the Democrats on [...]

Small businesses in the US are facing sharp rises in their health insurance premiums next year. On average premiums appear to be rising 15% in 2010. The NYT quotes “experts” as suggesting that the insurance industry is “raising premiums to get ahead of any legislative changes that might reduce their profits”. Unfortunately for this theory, [...]

“Healthcare NZ’s ‘biggest threat’ – OECD” blares the headline, which nearly sent it straight to my spam journalism series, but the underlying article is interesting. It is the OECD report on New Zealand’s economy.
“With the risk of a baseline level of debt much higher than expected before the [global economic] crisis, controlling future health (and [...]