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Health Savings Accounts

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Books and Book Chapters

"The Tax Treatment of Health Care," Chapter 14, Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th Edition (2009).

"Health Care Regulation," Chapter 15, Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th Edition (2009).

Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It, by Michael F. Cannon and Michael D. Tanner (Cato Institute, 2005)

"Private Health Care," Chapter 27 of the Cato Handbook for Congress, 108 Congress.

Patient Power: The Free-Enterprise Alternative to Clinton's Health Plan, by John C. Goodman and Gerald L. Musgrave (1994).

Cato Studies

"Health Savings Accounts: Do the Critics Have a Point?," by Michael F. Cannon, Policy Analysis no. 569, May 30, 2006

"Combining Tax Reform and Health Care Reform with Large HSAs," by Michael F. Cannon, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 23, May 1, 2005

"Medical Savings Accounts: Progress and Problems under HIPAA," by Victoria Craig Bunce, Policy Analysis no. 411, August 8, 2001

"The Establishment Strikes Back: Medical Savings Accounts and Adverse Selection," by Peter Ferrara, Briefing Paper no. 26, April 4, 1996

"The Wrong and Right Ways to Reform Medicare," by Doug Bandow and Michael D. Tanner, Policy Analysis no. 230, June 8, 1995

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Opinion and Commentary

"Daniels and Obamacare, Round Two," by Michael F. Cannon, National Review (Online), March 14, 2011

"The Same Rotten Rx," by Michael D. Tanner, New York Post, March 4, 2010

"The Case for High-Deductible Health Insurance," by Michael D. Tanner, RealClearPolitics.com, March 1, 2010

"A Fed Takeover by Any Other Name...," by Michael D. Tanner, New York Post, November 8, 2009

"Time to Start Over," by Michael D. Tanner, USA Today, October 13, 2009

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Events

"Will Cost Containment Derail Health Care Reform?," June 2, 2009 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

"Why Markets Are the Key to Quality, Coordinated Medical Care," February 20, 2009 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

"Health Care University," December 10, 2007 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

"Health Savings Accounts: Not Entirely Consumer Directed (Yet)," May 24, 2007 [Policy Forum]

"Can Health Savings Accounts Cover the Uninsured?," May 3, 2005 [Policy Forum]

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Speeches and Congressional Testimony

"Rising Health Care Costs: The New Role for Consumer Empowerment, Greater Cost Medical Savings Accounts, and Two-Tiered Defined Contribution Health Plans," by Tom Miller, Speech before Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Health, August 13, 2002.




Multimedia

Daily Podcast ObamaCare's Promises One Year Later featuring Michael D. Tanner (March 2, 2011) [Daily Podcast, 08:41]

Daily Podcast Ideas for Free-Market Health Care Reform featuring Rep. Paul Ryan (June 19, 2009) [Daily Podcast, 08:26]

Events Will Cost Containment Derail Health Care Reform? featuring Arnold Kling (June 2, 2009) [Events, 33:51]

Media Highlights - TV Arnold Kling discusses health care reform on WCAX News (April 24, 2009) [Media Highlights - TV, 02:15]

Events Why Markets Are the Key to Quality, Coordinated Medical Care featuring Arnold Kling (February 20, 2009) [Events, 40:37]

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