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Health Affairs, 25, no. 6 (2006): 1740-1741 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.6.1740 © 2006 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Book Reviews

Libertarian Health Policy

Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It
by Michael F. Cannon and Michael D. Tanner
(Washington: Cato Institute, 2005), 173 pp., $9.95

Accustomed to thinking that health care is consuming us rather than the other way around, I initially found the subtitle of this book jarring, since it seemed to imply that the health care industry needs more, not less, freedom to pursue its costly projects. The liberation theme serves mostly, however, to dramatize the libertarian leanings of the authors and their publisher. As it turns out, a major premise of the book is that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Clark C. Havighurst

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