Health Care Reform Debate

"Baucus Bill" (America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009), specifically Title I, Subtitle D (Personal Responsibility).

http://www.opencongress.org/baucus_bill_health_care.html

Current Reform Bill in the House of Representatives (H.R. 3200):

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-3200

Alternative Reforms:

"The Whole Foods Alternative: Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit." by John Mackey (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html)
http://healthcare.cato.org/
http://healthcare.cato.org/free-market-approach-health-care-reform (several links to studies, articles, op-eds, pod-casts and books)
http://www.hermancain.com/news/press-opinion-041309.asp
Bill from Republicans - http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-3400

Several Policy Recommendations pertaining to Health Care Reform

http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb111/index.html

Resources detailing the issues, dangerous aspects of, and recommendations for state health insurance initiatives:

http://healthcare.cato.org/state-health-care-reform

Explaining the WHO ranking (for when people remark about how the World Health Organization ranks the USA 37th in the world):

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9236

http://www.cato.org/pubs/bp/html/bp101/bp101index.html (full text)

A look at National Health Care Systems around the world (grass isn't always greener):

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-613.pdf

To respond to the arguments of life expectancy and infant mortality:

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA547ComparativeHealth.html

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa532.pdf

http://reason.com/blog/show/136266.html

http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=psc_working_papers

Alternative View on Bankruptcies:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/02/25/the-truth-about-medical-bankruptcies/

Tort reform links:

http://www.atr.org/userfiles/file/ATR_Medical_Tort_Reform.pdf

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/12/10/marie-gryphon-on-loser-pays/

http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=861

Detailing that the number of "uninsured" is not quite accurate:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124579852347944191.html

Other Sites Related to Opposing the President's Health Care Reform Vision:

What opponents of free-market reform cite:

Congressional Research Service Report for Congress -- U.S. Health Care Spending: Comparison with Other OECD Countries
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34175_20070917.pdf
Often cited Harvard study in the American Journal of Medicine (be sure to read the method of data collection and interpretation) http://www.pnhp.org/new_bankruptcy_study/Bankruptcy-2009.pdf

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Health Care Reform Debate

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