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PODCAST:
Tomas Philipson, chairman of the Manhattan Institute’s Project FDA, professor at the Harris School for Public Policy at the University of Chicago, former Bush Administration Senior Economic Advisor to the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during 2003-04, and Senior Economic Advisor to the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2004-05, talks to Paul Howard about comparative effectiveness research

Recommended Reading:
The Blue Pill Or The Red Pill?, Tomas Philipson, Forbes.com, 1-14-10
The Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Research on Health and Health Care Spending, Anirban Basu, Tomas J. Philipson, January 2010


To listen to other podcasts in the Innovative Ideas series, click here


• 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".


• 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"


• Paul Howard, senior fellow at the Center for Medical Progress and Ben Plotinsky, Managing Editor, City Journal discuss "Health Care's New Entrepreneurs"


• 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"


• Paul Howard, managing editor of MedicalProgressToday.com and senior fellow at the Center for Medical Progress, reads his article "Congress is full of SCHIP".


• David Gratzer on Salem Radio Network's "Dennis Prager Show," 06-26-08


• 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


• Paul Howard interviews MI guest speaker Dr. Paul Offit, Professor of Vaccinology and co-inventor of the RotaTeq vaccine.

"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

• 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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