January 17, 2007 5:44PM 

# NEJM Reviews Medicare Meets Mephistopheles 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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This week’s issue of the *New England Journal of Medicine* carries a [review](http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/356/3/314?query=TOC) of the Cato Institute’s latest health care book, *[Medicare Meets Mephistopheles](http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&pid=1441322)* by Cato adjunct scholar [David A. Hyman](https://www.cato.org/people/hyman.html). Reviewer Peter Jacobson of the University of Michigan School of Public Health writes:

> Hyman’s bracing critique reflects the fact that neither Medicare’s problems nor the ascendancy of market-based approaches to solving them can be ignored any longer.

*Medicare Meets Mephistopheles* provides a good starting point for free-market advocates who are serious about preventing the federal government from imposing price controls on prescription drugs, or otherwise stealing from future generations.

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