With the so-called “stimulus package” threatening to expand government control over health care even more, Grace Marie Turner reminds us of the kind of private-sector innovations in health care and insurance aimed to please customers:
Spurred on by competitive pressures, many health-care companies have devised impressive solutions to health needs while driving down costs and expanding access. Instead of suffocating this progress with a mountain of rules and regulations, government should get out of the way.
Read the whole article in the Philadelphia Inquirer here. For more, check out her longer report on innovation in health care here. (Thanks to FIRM for the pointer to this essay.)
