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Health care is the single biggest issue facing government at all levels. Georgia has been a leader in consumer driven health plans, encouraging tax equity and promoting transparency in cost and quality information for consumers. Medical malpractice reform is an area where Georgia can again lead the nation by increasing access to justice and reducing the massive cost of defensive medicine.
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Health Care Publications
An Ounce of Prevention Not on Feds’ Health Care List - May 3rd, 2013
Georgia Has Alternatives to Medicaid Expansion - April 26th, 2013
Uncompensated Care and An Alternative to Medicaid Expansion - April 25th, 2013
Malpractice Law Is Bad for Your Health - April 12th, 2013
Time to End the Medical Device Tax - March 29th, 2013
Health Care is Key to Rehabilitation
As Female Incarceration Rates Explode - March 15th, 2013
As Female Incarceration Rates Explode - March 15th, 2013
A New Approach to Medical Malpractice Reform - February 28th, 2013
Telemedicine, a Telling Sign of Health Care’s Future - February 8th, 2013
Medicaid Expansion: Hand Up or Handcuff? - February 1st, 2013
Congress Works to Dismantle and Defund ObamaCare - January 24th, 2013
Electronic Medical Records Keep Natural Disasters From Turning into Personal Health Care Disasters - January 18th, 2013
Options for Georgia Going Forward under the PPACA - January 17th, 2013
Governor Deal at Eggs: No Such Thing as “Free Health Care” - January 16th, 2013
Funding Dearth Opens Opportunity Under the Gold Dome - January 11th, 2013
As 2013 Begins, Get Ready for an ObamaCare Tax Onslaught - January 7th, 2013
Help Patients and Budget: Replace Georgia’s Broken Medical Tort System - December 20th, 2012
Checking Up On Health: December 18 - December 18th, 2012
A Child Nods to Health Reform - December 14th, 2012
Checking Up On Health: December 11, 2012 - December 11th, 2012
Checking Up On Health: December 4, 2012 - December 4th, 2012
Czech Republic’s Cautionary Tale of Government-run Health - November 30th, 2012
Checking Up On Health: November 27 - November 27th, 2012
What the President’s Re-Election Means for ObamaCare - November 8th, 2012
Checking Up On Health: October 30 - October 30th, 2012
Checking Up On Health: October 23, 2012 - October 23rd, 2012
Checking Up On Health - October 16th, 2012
Health Care Reform Must Be Patient-Focused - October 12th, 2012
Checking Up On Health - October 9th, 2012
Medical Malpractice Reform Can End Insult to the Injured - September 21st, 2012
TV’s New Reality Show: Trying to Love Obamacare? - September 5th, 2012
A Different View about Obama’s Medicare “Actual Facts” - August 28th, 2012
Medicaid Card Will Not Guarantee Access to a Physician - August 22nd, 2012
Business Leaders Have a Chance to Fix Health Care - August 16th, 2012
Not Reforming Medicare is Not an Option - August 15th, 2012
Checking Up On Health - August 14th, 2012
Checking Up On Health Care - July 31st, 2012
Checking Up on Health - July 25th, 2012
Why States are Reluctant on National Health Care Reform - July 20th, 2012
Supreme Court Health Law Opinion is Only the Beginning - June 29th, 2012
Why Prices Matter in Health Care - June 25th, 2012
No Reason to Panic over Supreme Court’s Decision - June 15th, 2012
At a Crossroads, Kaiser Permanente Georgia Changed Course - June 12th, 2012
Checking Up on Health - June 12th, 2012
Checking Up on Health - June 5th, 2012
The Case for Cross-Selling of Insurance Policies - June 4th, 2012
Checking Up on Health - May 29th, 2012
Why Penalize Georgia Families for Buying Health Insurance? - May 4th, 2012
It’s Not Too Late for Georgia Health Reform - March 23rd, 2012
Health Care: A Road Map to Innovation - March 14th, 2012
Georgia Wise to Halt Health Exchange - March 9th, 2012
‘Supreme Court Vetoes Federal Health Law’ – Now What? - January 6th, 2012
Time to Replace the Medical Liability Tort System - October 14th, 2011
Medicare or Medi-scare? - July 8th, 2011
What Mitt Romney Should Be Saying about Mass. Health Care - June 24th, 2011
One More Federal Health Care Battle Front: CLASS Warfare - June 17th, 2011
Medicaid Program Needs a Dose of Reality - May 13th, 2011
Health Care Reform: Treat Disease, Not Symptoms - May 6th, 2011
Healing Health Care Policy in Georgia - March 30th, 2011
Not-So-Happy Birthday for ObamaCare - March 25th, 2011
Bipartisan Health Reform Should Include Repeal of Minimum Loss Ratios - February 11th, 2011
Home Remedies for What Ails Health Care - February 4th, 2011
Reform lacking in Feds’ Medicaid Vision - December 17th, 2010
Redistribution of Health Care Dollars Hurts Seniors - December 3rd, 2010
Yes, No and Maybe All Covered in New Federal Health Law - October 29th, 2010
Feds’ New Health Care Law Means Learning ‘Government-Speak’ - September 24th, 2010
Foundation Unveils New Tool for Navigating Health Care Law - August 3rd, 2010
It’s Time to Listen to Health Care Consumers - July 23rd, 2010
Consumerism: The Cure for Health Care’s Ills - June 25th, 2010
A Case Study in How Consumerism Loses in European-Style Health Care - June 4th, 2010
Federal Health Care ‘Reform’ About to Get Old for Retirees - May 14th, 2010
Health Care: From ‘No Way’ to ‘Now What?’ - April 23rd, 2010
Georgia Taking the Lead in Cross-State Insurance Legislation - March 12th, 2010
Ten Easy Reforms to Cover Preexisting Conditions - February 26th, 2010
Biotechnology Research is No Trial-and-Error Approach To Georgia Jobs and Investment - February 19th, 2010
Developing a Statewide Clinical Trial Registry for Georgia Residents - February 19th, 2010
Shifting the Health Care Debate from Irate to Ideas - February 5th, 2010
The Hypocrisy Inherent in Congress’ Individual Mandate - January 15th, 2010
Redistributing Wealth Through Health ‘Reform’ - December 4th, 2009
Short-Term Uninsurance: the Problem No One Is Trying to Solve - November 6th, 2009
Ten Things to Look for in Health Care Reform - October 16th, 2009
Do the Math on Health Care Reform - October 2nd, 2009
Government is no cure for health care woes - September 25th, 2009
The Mother of All Slush Funds - September 11th, 2009
Hellish Health Reform - August 14th, 2009
Why a Partisan Health Plan will Never Work - August 7th, 2009
Charity Clinic Model Should Be Part of Health Reform - July 17th, 2009
Signing Away Health Care Freedom - June 19th, 2009
Ten Steps to Insuring the Uninsured - October 31st, 2008
Who Will Pay Cost of a Georgia “Health Tax?” - September 25th, 2008
Health care policy gets a shot in the arm - May 7th, 2008
Consumer Driven Health Plans – Working as Intended - March 17th, 2008
Consumer-Driven Health Care Fact Sheet on HSA-Eligible Policies - March 17th, 2008
Solutions for Georgia’s 1.7 Million Uninsured - January 25th, 2008
Does Socialism Work? Debunking the Myth - December 14th, 2007
New Approach Needed to Help the “Uninsurable” - October 25th, 2007
The Growing Cost of Health Care - September 21st, 2007
The Growing Cost of Health Care - September 21st, 2007
Tear Down This Wall - September 7th, 2007
A Prescription for Grady - August 17th, 2007
Reforming SCHIP: Using Premium Assistance to Expand Coverage - June 8th, 2007
What Georgia Should Do About Certificate of Need - March 9th, 2007
How Georgia Can Lower the State’s Uninsured by 500,000 - February 9th, 2007
How to Improve Health and Lower Health Care Costs in Georgia - October 27th, 2006
Testimony of Kelly McCutchen, Executive Vice President, Georgia Public Policy Foundation before the Georgia Senate Healthcare Transformation Study Committee - October 24th, 2006
Competition Cuts Costs for Medicare Rx - September 17th, 2006
Telemedicine Teleports Rural Residents to National Forefront - August 11th, 2006
Healing America’s Health Care Woes - June 23rd, 2006
Health Care: Why Incentives Matter - May 5th, 2006
Insure All Georgians - January 13th, 2006
Insure All Georgians - January 13th, 2006
Bold Legislation Can Cure Georgia’s Medical Woes - January 28th, 2005
Bold Legislation Can Cure Georgia’s Medical Woes - January 28th, 2005
Agenda 2005: A Guide to the Issues - September 3rd, 2004
Georgia Needs A High-Risk Health Insurance Pool - August 6th, 2004
The New Consumerism - May 25th, 2004
Price Controls Wrong Rx for Better Health at Lower Cost - March 5th, 2004
Mandatory Medical Review Panels Should Address Georgia Malpractice Crisis - November 14th, 2003
The Need for Mandatory Medical Review Panels: The Medical Malpractice Crisis in Georgia - November 14th, 2003
Transforming Our Health Sector By Empowering Consumers - November 7th, 2003
Major Reforms Needed in the Medical Liability Tort System - November 1st, 2003
Foundation’s Role in Transforming Health Care in Georgia is Welcomed - October 24th, 2003
Georgia can lead the nation in transforming health and health care - October 10th, 2003
Transform Health Care to Empower Individuals and Communities - September 5th, 2003
Maine strategy no prescription drug solution - May 30th, 2003
End Health Care Discrimination: Give Cash a Chance - April 15th, 2003
Georgia Should Lift Ban on Mail-Order Prescriptions - April 2nd, 2003
Expanding Health Insurance Coverage in Georgia - May 1st, 2000
Georgia Denies Seniors Choice - March 22nd, 1999
Answering the Critics of Medicare Private Contracting - August 1st, 1998
Grady Health System: Terminally Ill or Making Progress? - June 16th, 1998
Bringing Health Care Back to the Free Market - September 15th, 1996
Georgia Enacts Significant Health Care Reform - July 19th, 1995
State Regulations: Stifling Competition In Home Nursing - March 25th, 1995
Price Controls For Drugs - March 25th, 1994
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