Free-Market Healthcare Reform

The few areas where healthcare costs have decreased in cost in recent years show one similarity: the consumer and the payer are the same person. Healthcare savings accounts and other free-market reforms will put the American back in control of his or her own healthcare.

Legislative Alerts:

• 3/31/05 Combat Meth Act of 2005 Would Result in the Unnecessary Restriction of Over-the-Counter Cold Medicine (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Supplemental Rebates Are Poor Tax Policy
• S.B. 2264 & H.B. 999: Reducing Health Care Choices (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Stabenow Resolution: Another Round of Bad Health Care Policies
• The Poverty Level Relative to Prescription Drug Issue (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Breux-Frist Talking Points on Medicare Reform (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Policy Briefs:

• 4/22/05 Memo: The Budget, Medicare/ Medicaid Spending and Fraud
• Kerry Healthcare Plan Will Raise Taxes for All Americans (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• True Medicaid Reform, Not a Protection Racket (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• S.7: Bad Public Policy Undercuts Efforts to Enact Real Reform (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• President Bush's plan to strengthen Medicare
• Health Marts, A Free Market Health Care Solution
• The Privitization of Public Hospitals

Other Materials

• Educational mailers sent out by ATR during the 2000 election [Page 2](Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Kaiser Family Foundation Study Medicare and Prescription Drugs (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)