Social Protections that Put Families First
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“No one has worked longer and more effectively at creating a modern, people-oriented and affordable health system than John Goodman. He is an amazing pioneer and his book New Way to Care reflects his knowledge and his insights. In the book, he shows what’s wrong with our antiquated system of social insurance. Other countries, he writes, have found better solutions that merit our attention.”
—Newt Gingrich, former Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives
The COVID-19 pandemic. Obamacare. The Great Recession. The dot-com bust. The early ’90s recession. Every decade or so a disaster hits the United States and reminds us that many American families live one calamity away from financial ruin.
But what if there were a better way to help families protect themselves from life’s risks? And what if that way did not further bloat large government bureaucracies, increase taxes and debt, and inflate even more their obscene budgets?
Fortunately, author, economist, policy entrepreneur, and Independent Institute Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, Ph.D., has forged just such a path.
In New Way to Care: Social Protections That Put Families First, Dr. Goodman offers a bold strategy for giving Americans more control over their destiny, while still promoting—at far less expense—the important social goals that gave rise to government safety-net programs in the first place.
Here are just a few of the life-risks to which Dr. Goodman—the “Father of Health Savings Accounts,” according to the Wall Street Journal—presents solutions:
* Growing too old and outliving one’s assets
* Dying too young and leaving dependent family members without resources
* Becoming disabled and facing financial catastrophe
* Suffering a major health event and being unable to afford needed medical care
* Becoming unemployed and finding no market for one’s skills.
[link removed] New Way to Care, Dr. Goodman invites us to envision smartly crafted social protections that better empower and serve the nation’s families, harmonize individual and societal interests, foster personal responsibility and government accountability, bridge the partisan divide over social spending—and eliminate the risk that America’s safety-net expenditures will drive the U.S. economy over a fiscal cliff. The debate in America over social insurance will never be the same.
“John Goodman is a national treasure whose New Way to Care: Social Protections That Put Families First should be national policy. It is pragmatic, knowledgeable, and accessible. Read it and help to accomplish John’s wise advice.”
—Regina E. Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
“John Goodman is one of the most creative thinkers of our time in the complex world of health care policy. In his book New Way to Care, he puts forth important, thought-provoking ideas about the role of government in the personal lives of Americans. Read it!”
—Scott W. Atlas, M.D., Robert Wesson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Former Member, White House Coronavirus Task Force
John C. Goodman ([link removed]) is Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, President of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research, and author of the widely acclaimed, Independent books, A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America ([link removed]) , and the award-winning, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis ([link removed]) . The Wall Street Journal and the National Journal, among other media, have called him the “Father of Health Savings Accounts.”
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