Healthy Views

This summer promises to be long and hot when it comes to the debate over health care policy. Much has been and will continue to be written on the topic. But I wanted to draw your attention to three important pieces penned recently.

• A doctor shares his skepticism regarding the leading health care reform measures in the Chicago Tribune. Donald Palmisano explains how these measures could quickly wipe out what has taken decades to build.

• Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Scott Harrington, a professor of health-care management and insurance and risk management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, lays out his case for why a government-run insurance plan will crowd out private insurers, and make a single-payer system inevitable.

• And the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page did an excellent job at picking apart the Obama Administration’s assertions regarding the costs of its health care agenda.

Each warrants reading.

Raymond J. Keating
Chief Economist
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council