Topic: Health Affairs

January 8, 2021

Friday Facts: January 08, 2021

It’s Friday! Happy New Year! Welcome to the first issue of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s Friday Facts for 2021. This is a special year for the Foundation: We’re celebrating […]

January 10, 2020

Friday Facts: January 10, 2020

It’s Friday! January 28: We’re just 18 days away from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s 29th Anniversary Celebration and Freedom Award Dinner on January 28! Join us in the Egyptian […]

March 8, 2019

Friday Facts: March 8, 2018

It’s Friday! Quotes of note “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain “Our goal is not simply to send children to school. Our goal […]

January 19, 2018

Friday Facts: January 19, 2018

It’s Friday! Events January 23: Today is the deadline to register for the Foundation’s first event of 2018 on Tuesday, January 23. About 32,000 events will celebrate National School Choice […]

October 28, 2016

Friday Facts: October 28, 2016

It’s Friday! Events November 11: In less than two weeks, John Stossel of “Stossel” on Fox Business Network keynotes the Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Freedom Award! Have you […]

August 17, 2016

Checking Up On Health: August 17, 2016

What should you save for health care in your retirement? Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd I visited Canada briefly over the weekend, driving into […]

January 15, 2016

Beyond Medicaid: Health Care for Low-Income Georgians

There are better routes than Medicaid expansion to health care for low-income individuals. By Benita M. Dodd In his State of the State address to the Georgia Legislature this week, […]

July 21, 2015

Checking Up On Health: July 21, 2015

What’s cheapest for baby delivery and inpatient stays? Hint: NOT a nonprofit hospital. Health Policy News and Views Compiled By Benita M. Dodd The Internal Revenue Service’s tax subsidies for […]

March 4, 2014

Checking Up On Health: March 4, 2014

Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd And you thought it’s about your health care? Another wave of ObamaCare health-care plan cancellation notices was set to crash […]

January 14, 2014

Checking Up On Health: January 14, 2014

Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Happy New Year! Welcome to the first “Checking Up On Health” of 2014. Health care – policy and innovation – […]

July 23, 2013

Checking Up On Health: July 23, 2013

Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Even Dems are abandoning ship: The landmark health-reform law passed in 2010 has never been very popular and always highly […]

March 5, 2013

Checking Up On Health: March 5, 2013

Health Policy Briefs Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Update on ObamaCare: Florida’s Legislature, not Gov. Rick Scott, will have the final word on whether the state expands Medicaid. And […]

December 18, 2012

Checking Up On Health: December 18

Is your health plan “grandfathered” or does it fall under ObamaCare? Do you have “good” genes or mutants? Health Policy Briefs Compiled by Benita M. Dodd The fault […]

August 22, 2012

Medicaid Card Will Not Guarantee Access to a Physician

By Grace-Marie Turner One of the most tragic failings of ObamaCare is that it will make it harder for many of the most vulnerable citizens – patients with no option […]

August 14, 2012

Checking Up On Health

In this week’s Checking Up on Health, Benita Dodd reports that researchers are using a 3D printer to create lab-grown ears. A CT scan of the existing ear generates a […]

July 13, 2011

What Difference Has RomneyCare Made?

Most conservative critics of the Massachusetts health reform have focused on any piece of bad news about the program they can find. After all, if this is the model for […]

March 17, 2008

Consumer Driven Health Plans – Working as Intended

By Greg Scandlen Consumer Driven Health Plans have been around for about five years now. They began in June 2002, when the Internal Revenue Service released its first guidance on […]