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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
To Fix Health Care, Treat It as a System: Memorandum to Senator Ronald Wyden and Democratic Members of the Senate Finance Committee
Senate Finance Committee Democrats are seeking evidence and proposals to shape health-care legislation. Their critique of insurers has merit, but reforms confined to insurance risk leaving hospitals, conglomerates, and much of the system’s extraction untouched, sets the stage for further disappointment.
Are We Reforming Global Health or Washing Our Hands Of It?
Global health financing is collapsing just as demands on health systems are rising. As funding retreats and reform debates intensify, a deeper question emerges about who bears the costs, and whether today’s fixes risk creating lasting damage that will be difficult to reverse.
Why Public Policy’s Core Value Should Be Equality
Equality runs deeper than economics textbooks or policy fashions suggest. Across disciplines, evidence increasingly links more equal societies to stronger well-being, greater social trust, and healthier democracies, challenging the assumption that fairness must come at the expense of prosperity or economic dynamism.