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Commentaries

Government-managed healthcare

More for less or less for more?

Pages 107-112 | Published online: 05 Dec 2017
 

Abstract

According to Cato Institute chairman William A. Niskanen, government-mandated managed competition will fail to control healthcare costs and will pose a serious threat to the quality of American medical care. Mr Niskanen elaborates on this viewpoint in the following remarks, which were originally delivered in a speech.

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William A. Niskanen

William A. Niskanen Mr Niskanen is chairman of the Cato Institute, Washington, DC. A former defense analyst, business economist, and professor, he joined the institute in 1985, after stepping down as acting chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. His primary long-term research focuses on the three major sectors of the economy that are substantially financed by government—defense, education, and medical care.

The Cato Institute is a public policy research foundation whose goal is to increase the involvement of the lay public in questions of policy and the role of government.

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