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  • Health for Humanity: How Patent Protection Saves Lives, Center for Medical Progress Conference, Speaker(s): Robert Goldberg, Ph.D., Julian Morris, Frank R. Lichtenberg, Roger Bate, Dr. Amir Attaran, James Love, December 2002
    Transcript Available
  • Patents for Antiretroviral Drugs: Help or Hinder the Search for a Solution to AIDS Treatment in Africa, Center for Medical Progress Presentation, Speaker(s): Dr. Amir Attaran, Frank R. Lichtenberg, December 2001

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NEW SECOND OPINION!
Experts Discuss the Issue of Medical Research Funding Sources in our "Second Opinion" Expert Forum!

This Week's Expert Panel:   • Senator Tom Coburn
  • David Gratzer
  • Paul Howard
  • Sally Satel
Click here to read their second opinions.

New York's Uninsured: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Transcript Now Available!

Click here to read the transcript from the conference jointly hosted by the Manhattan Institute's Center for Medical Progress and the New York State Health Foundation, including commentary by distinguished panelists and remarks by keynote speaker Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
 
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Attack of the Pharmascolds
by David A. Shaywitz, Thomas P. Stossel, M.D.
May 12, 2008
 

NEW PODCAST:

• Senior fellow Paul Howard interviews Senator Tom Coburn about his innovative proposal for health care reform.

"We're going to go back to where the patient and the doctor make the decisions about what is in the best interest of the patient. And that means we're going to consider economic issues as well—not just this blind "It doesn't matter what it costs, we're going to do it."
—Senator Tom Coburn

PODCAST ARCHIVE >>
SUGGESTED READING:
Markets and Health Care

Who Killed Health Care Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem—And the Consumer-Driven Cure
Regina Herzlinger
(McGraw-Hill, June 2007)

THE CURE: HOW CAPITALISM CAN SAVE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE

Dr. David Gratzer (Encounter Books, October 2006)
  
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