Capitol Hill Briefing 

# Why Markets Are the Key to Quality, Coordinated Medical Care 

##### Watch the Event 

Download:

[ 

Video 

](https://fastly-unsigned-us-east-1-prod.brightcovecdn.com/media/v1/pmp4/static/clear/6039378657001/35b7974e-c56d-47d9-8309-67a48f1ef652/e8f7e777-b556-4683-a745-7c5c385432b1/main.mp4) 

[ 

Video 

](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2009/hb-02-20-09.mp4) 

[ 

Audio 

](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2009/hba-02-20-09.mp3) 

Join the conversation on X using [\#CatoEvents](https://x.com/hashtag/CatoEvents). Follow [@CatoInstitute](https://x.com/catoinstitute) on X to get future event updates, live streams, and videos from the Cato Institute.

Date and Time 

February 20, 2009 1 - 2 PM EST 

Location 

B-340 Rayburn House Office Building 

Share This Event 

##### Featuring 

Featuring **Arnold Kling**, author of *Crisis of Abundance, Under the Radar: Starting Your Internet Business Without Venture Capital and Learning Economics* and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute. 

The uninsured are not the only problem our health care sector faces; powerful forces suppress the quality of care for insured and uninsured alike. Notably, Americans receive dangerously uncoordinated medical care. Most approaches to improving health care coordination rely on government-imposed top-down reforms, yet this very approach has suppressed coordination and other innovations in health care delivery. In the recent Cato Institute Briefing Paper “[Does the Doctor Need a Boss?](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9878 "https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9878"),” Arnold Kling and Michael F. Cannon explain that coordinated care requires free markets. They propose to let consumers control the money that purchases their health insurance and for policymakers to liberalize licensing laws–two steps that would enable consumers to pick health plans that coordinate rather than force consumers to sit and wait until policymakers finally get it right.

[![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) 
This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).