Articles by Christopher J. Conover
- ‘Not One Dime’: Health Care Law Projected to Add $6.2 Trillion to U.S. Deficit Thursday, March 14, 2013
- Congress is likely to follow precedent and bypass the new health care law’s draconian payment cuts to doctors and hospitals, causing the law's cost to balloon ...
- Is U.S. Health Spending on Another Planet? Monday, February 13, 2012
- While the United States consumes a disproportionate share of global resources devoted to medical care, this global share is shrinking.
- Romney, Perry, and Huntsman: A Tale of Three Governors Tuesday, January 10, 2012
- How did these three presidential aspirants do when it comes to healthcare spending?
- In Sickness or in Wealth Wednesday, November 30, 2011
- How out-of-pocket health spending added 10 million people to the ranks of the poor.
- The Family Healthcare Budget Squeeze Monday, November 14, 2011
- Healthcare will overtake shelter within five years to become the single largest category of consumption. How has this happened?
- Is Medicare a Ponzi Scheme? Tuesday, October 25, 2011
- Many retirees feel they have ‘paid’ for benefits through their payroll taxes. This is much closer to being true for Social Security than it is for Medicare.
- Entitled to Leisure? Tuesday, September 13, 2011
- The growing length of retirement for men in part reflects a decline in the number of years spent working. Is this a good thing?
- Feeling Poorer? Healthcare Bears Some Blame Thursday, August 11, 2011
- A look at what happens when health spending rises much faster than either national income or household wealth.
- Government Share of Healthcare Is Far Bigger Than Advertised Tuesday, August 2, 2011
- The conventional ways of cataloguing and reporting health spending significantly understate the government share of health spending.
- Health Is the Health of the State Tuesday, July 19, 2011
- Between 1966 and 2007, the entire increase in the size of government relative to the economy resulted from growth in tax-financed health spending.