PUBLICATIONS BY Greg D'Angelo
2008 Research
July 02, 2008
Health Care Reform in Massachusetts: Medicaid Waiver Renewal Will Set a Precedent
By Greg D’Angelo and Edmund F. Haislmaier
(WebMemo #1979)
As the Medicaid waiver for Massachusetts's health care reform is up for debate again, federal and state officials should remember the intent of the original reform plan.
March 26, 2008
Congress Must Not Ignore the Medicare Trustees' Warning
By Greg D'Angelo and Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1869)
Congress should take steps to transform Medicare from a costly open-ended entitlement program to a defined-contribution program.
February 11, 2008
State and Local Governments Must Address Unfunded Health Care Liabilities
By Greg D'Angelo
(WebMemo #1808)
Instead of seeking a federal bailout, state and local officials should enact creative, market-based reforms.
2007 Research
December 06, 2007
Expanding SCHIP: Not the Best Option for States
By Edmund F. Haislmaier and Greg D’Angelo
(WebMemo #1725)
The congressional proposal to expand eligibility for SCHIP would aggravate budget challenges that state governments will face in the coming years.
November 28, 2007
Health Care Tax Credits: The Best Way to Advance Affordability, Choice, and Coverage
By Greg D'Angelo
(WebMemo #1711)
Health care tax credits coupled with other state reforms would go a long way toward improving affordability and reducing the ranks of the uninsured.
September 19, 2007
SCHIP and "Crowd-Out": The High Cost of Expanding Eligibility
By Paul L. Winfree and Greg D'Angelo
(WebMemo #1627)
Expanding SCHIP to cover children in higher income families is not an efficient or cost-effective way to reduce the number of uninsured children.
August 14, 2007
Expanding SCHIP Will Challenge State Finances: A State-by-State Analysis
By Greg D’Angelo, Michelle C. Bucci, and Marcus Newland
(WebMemo #1586)
State-by-state numbers on how Congress's SCHIP expansion plans would hit state budgets.
July 30, 2007
State Health Reform: How to Fund a Statewide Health Insurance Exchange
By Greg D'Angelo and Edmund F. Haislmaier
(WebMemo #1573)
The five core financial components of a state health insurance exchange.
June 21, 2007
SCHIP and "Crowd-Out": How Public Program Expansion Reduces Private Coverage
By Andrew M. Grossman and Greg D'Angelo
(WebMemo #1518)
As Congress considers expanding SCHIP up the income ladder, it should recognize that throwing more money into the program will increasingly "crowd out" private funding and coverage while doing less to expand overall coverage.
May 03, 2007
The 2007 Medicare Trustees Report: A Trigger for Reform?
By Greg D'Angelo
(WebMemo #1442)
Congress should heed the trustees' funding warning and adopt the Medicare reforms in the President's most recent budget proposal.
April 17, 2007
The Medicare Fair Prescription Drug Price Act of 2007: A Step Towards Government Interference
By Greg D'Angelo
(WebMemo #1426)
Government negotiation of drug prices would substitute regulation and access restrictions for market competition and consumer choice in Medicare.
April 11, 2007
The VA Drug Pricing Model: What Senators Should Know
By Greg D'Angelo
(WebMemo #1420)
Not only would the VA pricing model reap little savings in Medicare, but it would also fail to meet the needs of beneficiaries.
January 11, 2007
H.R. 4: A Confusing and Contradictory Prescription for Medicare Drugs
By Greg D'Angelo, and Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1306)
The federal government cannot really "negotiate" drug prices in the Medicare program; it can only "set"prices, harming seniors in the process.
2006 Research
December 01, 2006
Why the New Congress Should Not Fix Drug Prices
By Greg D'Angelo
(WebMemo #1270)
Fixing prescription drug prices in Medicare would likely raise costs and stifle innovation.
October 20, 2006
Building on the Successes of Health Savings Accounts
By Greg D'Angelo and Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1239)
How to improve HSAs and make all health insurance more affordable and better tailored to consumers.
2008 Commentary
July 08, 2008
Our health, ourselves
Yet feds have HSAs under the knife
By Greg D'Angelo and Ryan Lynch
To get a clearer picture of the competing visions for health-care reform, Americans need look no further than the surgery some in Congress want to perform on patient choice.
April 07, 2008
Costs will skyrocket as bureaucrats exert control over private health insurance
By Greg D'Angelo
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama is mostly right when he says, "The reason people don't have health insurance isn't because they don't want it, it's because they can't afford it."
Unfortunately, the Illinois freshman senator's big government, bureaucratic reforms would only push health-care costs higher.
2007 Commentary
July 28, 2007
Paying More to Help Fewer
By Robert Moffit and Greg D'Angelo
Among other proposals, the Senate is eying two plans to provide health coverage to those currently lacking insurance. Plan 1 would extend coverage to around 4 million Americans for billions of dollars. Plan 2 would extend coverage to 24 million for no more than we're spending now. Guess which approach Senate leaders are pushing?
July 26, 2007
The Middle-Class Welfare Kid Next Door
By Robert E. Moffit and Greg D’Angelo
Imagine three families with something surprising in common.
