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PODCAST:
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president American Action Forum
and Commissioner on the Congressionally-chartered Financial
Crisis Inquiry Commission. Since 2001, he has served in a
variety of important policy positions. During 2001-2002, he
was the Chief Economist of the President’s Council of
Economic Advisers (where he had also served during 1989-1990
as a Senior Staff Economist). At CEA he helped to formulate
policies addressing the 2000-2001 recession and the aftermath
of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. From 2003-2005
he was the 6th Director of the non-partisan Congressional
Budget Office, which provides budgetary and policy analysis
to the U.S. Congress.
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"The presumption with the credit agencies has always
been that the US will get its act together, slow the growth
of spending, and it will get rid of these large deficits.
If we pass this [health care] bill, we will have taken a
decisive step in the wrong direction." – Douglas
Holtz-Eakin
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Recommended Reading:
Health
Care Reform and the Numbers, American Action Forum,
03-10-10
Reconciliation
isn’t the Answer to Health Reform, Douglas Holtz-Eakin,
American Action Forum, 03-10-10
Testimony
of Douglas Holtz-Eakin
United States Senate Committee on the
Budget
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To listen to other podcasts in the Innovative
Ideas series, click
here
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• Listen to Frank Lichtenberg, health economist at Columbia University, interviewed by Paul Howard, senior fellow and director of the Center for Medical Progress, on his newest report "Alive and Working: How Access to New Drugs has Slowed the Growth in America's Disability Rates".
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• David Gratzer, senior fellow at the Center for Medical Progress, is interviewed by Paul Howard, senior fellow and director of the Center for Medical Progress, about his article, "McCain is the Real Health-Care Reformer"
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• Paul Howard, senior fellow at the Center for Medical Progress and Ben Plotinsky, Managing Editor, City Journal discuss "Health Care's New Entrepreneurs"
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• Paul Howard, senior Fellow and the Director of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Medical Progress, reads his National Review Online article, "Free-Market Medicine"
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• Paul Howard, managing editor of MedicalProgressToday.com and senior fellow at the Center for Medical Progress, reads his article "Congress is full of SCHIP".
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• David Gratzer on Salem Radio Network's "Dennis Prager Show," 06-26-08
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• Senior fellow Paul Howard interviews Senator Tom Coburn about his innovative proposal for health care reform.
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"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
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• Paul Howard interviews MI guest speaker Dr. Paul Offit, Professor of Vaccinology and co-inventor of the RotaTeq vaccine.
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"You now have an accumulated evidence that I think leads one to a truth, which is this
compilation of now what are 16 negative studies that show that vaccines don't cause
autism. I'm not sure that we need to put any more money into a hypothesis which
clearly has been disproved."
—Dr. Paul Offit
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• Paul Howard, Acting Director of the Center for Medical Progress, interviews the Empire Center's Tarren Bragdon about his new report, RxNY
• Paul Howard and June O'Neill compare the U.S. and Canada's health care systems
• Paul Howard reads his Washington Post article
On
Vaccines, Immune to Reason
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