For decades, AEI's health policy scholars have led debates over health care issues, including health coverage for the uninsured; Medicare, Medicaid, and other health entitlements; challenges to innovative pharmaceutical research and development; global health, including large international health organizations; and private-sector solutions to public health problems.

AEI Press, 2008

Making a Killing champions greater cooperation between wealthy and poor nations to quash the trade in counterfeit pharmaceuticals. Roger Bate calls for fortified policing resources, harsher penalties for counterfeiters, widespread public education, and common-sense consumer vigilance against this danger. Western policymakers must act immediately to quell the deadly counterfeit market in developing countries--and to ensure the integrity of their products at home.

AEI Press, 2008

Under Roger Feldman's "medical indemnity" proposal, Medicare would pay each patient a fixed amount of money, reserving larger subsidies for sicker people. Patients, in turn, would select their own medical services from providers who would set their own competitive rates. A medical indemnity system would do away with the distortion in patients’ incentives wrought by conventional Medicare coverage. Given a fixed amount of money to spend on medical care, patients would have strong incentives to shop for the combination of services, providers, and prices that most closely meet their needs.

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