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What Does Government-Run Healthcare Mean?

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Partner:: Cato Institute
Location:: Cato Institute
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 07.15.09
Speakers:: Michael F. Cannon,; Sally C. Pipes,; Michael Tanner
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Summary: Government-run health systems, such as the one in Canada, are pointed to by those on different sides of the issue as examples of what to do or not to do in health reform.

What lessons do these systems hold for the United States as it attempts to overhaul its health care system? What policies should Congress steer clear of?

Join Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and co-author of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It, and Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide, for a discussion.

Pipes recounts her firsthand experience with the Canadian healthcare system, and both panelists explore what lies ahead for the United States.

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Michael F. Cannon

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies. Previously, he served as a domestic policy analyst at the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee under Senator Larry E. Craig (R-ID), where he advised the Senate leadership on health, education, labor, welfare, and Second Amendment policy.

In addition, Cannon has worked as a health care policy analyst for Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation in Washington, D.C. Cannon has appeared on CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, and NPR. His articles have been featured in USA Today, the New York Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Most recently, Cannon coauthored the book Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.

Sally C. Pipes

Sally C. Pipes is president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank founded in 1979. Prior to becoming president in 1991, she was assistant director of the Fraser Institute, based in Vancouver, Canada.

Pipes addresses national and international audiences on health care, women's issues, and the economy.

Michael Tanner

As director of Cato's health and welfare studies, Michael Tanner heads research on new, market-based approaches to health, welfare and Social Security. His approach is based on individual responsibility rather than government control.

His most recent book, Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution (2007), chronicles the demise of the Republican party as it has shifted away from its limited government roots and warns that reform is necessary to avoid electoral defeat in 2008.

Under Tanner's direction, Cato launched the Project on Social Security Choice, which is widely considered the leading impetus for transforming the soon-to-be-bankrupt system into a private savings program. Time Magazine calls Tanner, "one of the architects of the private accounts movement," and Congressional Quarterly named him one of the nation's five most influential experts on Social Security.

In addition to his work on Social Security, Tanner oversees Cato's research on new, market-based approaches to health care reform and social welfare programs.

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01.: Introduction

03 min 45 sec

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02.: Michael F. Cannon: Corporate Interests and Healthcare Reform

04 min 57 sec

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03.: Hospitals' Ulterior Motives for Healthcare Reform

03 min 02 sec

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04.: The Dangers of Nationalizing Healthcare

02 min 06 sec

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05.: The Threat of Healthcare Rationing

05 min 48 sec

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06.: Sally C. Pipes: The Government's Increasing Role in Healthcare

02 min 35 sec

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07.: The Limitations of National Healthcare

03 min 29 sec

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08.: Wait Times in Canada

05 min 32 sec

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09.: Other Problems with Public Healthcare

04 min 59 sec

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10.: How Healthcare Reform Will Destroy Private Insurance

03 min 17 sec

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11.: Alternate Proposals for Reform

03 min 55 sec

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12.: Q & A

00 min 35 sec

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13.: Q1: Rethinking the Healthcare 'System'

02 min 20 sec

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14.: Q2: A Market-Based Approach to Universal Coverage

04 min 11 sec

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15.: Q3: Creating Offshore Hospitals to Circumvent Government Regulation

01 min 19 sec

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16.: Q4: How Choice Lowers Cost

02 min 09 sec

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17.: Q5: Taking Care Out of Emergency Rooms

03 min 42 sec

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18.: Q6: Problems with Military Healthcare

02 min 53 sec

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19.: Q7: Predicting the Outcome of the Current Healthcare Debate

03 min 17 sec

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Is Corporate Self-Interest Driving Healthcare Reform?

03 min 30 sec

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Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, suggests that big business support for the Obama administration's health reform is driven by "naked self-interest."

Referring to Wal-Mart and Pharma, Cannon argues that "the administration is carving up the industry, picking winners and losers."
Do Medicare and Medicaid Increase Insurance Premiums?

01 min 58 sec

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Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, argues against a public option and argues that government run programs like Medicare and Medicaid add about 10% to the cost of premium for the privately insured by way of "hidden taxes." The uninsured, she says, only add about 1%.
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