Massachusetts has committed to restructuring its health system around the principle that individual consumers, not employers or government, should be the key decision-makers and owners ofinsurance in the health care system. That is a very significantshift in the health policy debate, and it is worth replicatingelsewhere the core design elements that effect such a profoundchange.
The rise of Asia is a profound geopolitical trend that is reshapingour world today, and the United States is in a stronger position inAsia than at any other time.
Delivered June 27, 2008 The Heritage Foundation founded the Index of Economic Freedom in 1995 as a way for countries to measure progress and compare themselves in what we believe is an essential ingredient of prosperity- namely, economic freedom. The Index is now in its 14th edition, and it is co-published with the Wall Street Journal.[1]