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Daily Archive for January 19th, 2011

The Coming Doctor Shortage

Dr. Pardes writes today in the WSJ: The doctor shortage was fostered in 1996 when Congress capped the number of new doctors Medicare would pay to train, a practice that continues to this day. Teaching hospitals, which now make up about 10% of hospitals nationwide, depend on those Medicare funds to pay about two-thirds of […]

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Policy Proposal: A New Series

In the coming months we’ll be presenting here ideas for political reforms that satisfy three criteria. First, they improve the incentive structure for both taxpayers and policymakers/legislators/executive agencies over the current condition. Second, they move us closer to adhering to the Rule of Law. Third, they would seem to be non-partisan reforms in the sense […]

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