#  Commentaries and Opinions 

 



  
**Commentaries**

[A Follow-Up on the Analysis of the Romney-Ryan Medicare Plan](/%20http://scholar.harvard.edu/cutler/files/romney-ryan_follow-up.pdf), October 2, 2012

**Editorials**

Wall Street Journal, [Health Reform Passes the Cost Test](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703936804575108080266520738.html), March 9, 2010.

Wall Street Journal, [Why Obama's Health Plan is Better](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122152292213639569.html), September 16, 2008.

**Issue Briefs**

David Cutler, Karen Davis, and Krisof Strimlikis, [Why Health Care Reform Will Bend The Cost Curve](http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2009/Dec/Why-Health-Reform-Will-Bend-the-Cost-Curve.aspx), December 7, 2009

David Cutler, [Health Care Premiums Run Amok](http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/07/premiums_run_amok.html), July 24, 2009

 David Cutler and Judy Feder, [Financing Health Care Reform](http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/06/health_financing.html), June 29, 2009

Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin and David Cutler, [The Two Trillion Dollar Solution](http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/06/2trillion_solution.html), June 24, 2009

David Cutler, [Health System Modernization Will Reduce the Deficit ](http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/05/health_modernization.html), May 11, 2009.

**TV Interviews**

Fox News, [How Obama Can Gain Health Care Momentum"](http://video.foxbusiness.com/8186735/how-obama-can-gain-health-care-momentum/?category_id=2d19ab55fd18ef744e77b338de894653664e72e0), August 14, 2009

BBC, *HARDtalk*, [Can Health Care Reform be Passed?](http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/progs/09/hardtalk/cutler_03aug.ram), August 3, 2009.

National Public Radio, *On Point*, [Crunch Time for Health Reform](http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/12/crunch-time-for-health-reform), December 17, 2009

National Public Radio, *On Point*, [The Health Care Endgame](http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/11/the-health-care-endgame), November 23, 2009

National Public Radio, *On Point*, [Issues '08: Health Care](http://www.onpointradio.org/2008/09/issues-08-health-care), September 24, 2008

National Public Radio, *All Things Considered*, [Health Care and the Campaigns: A Discussion](http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=94868834) September 21, 2008.

National Public Radio, *Morning Edition*, [Health Care and the Uninsured Middle Class](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4631736), August 22, 2008

National Public Radio, *Talk of the Nation*, [Why Do Europeans Smoke More than Americans?](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5382924), May 4, 2006

National Public Radio, *On Point*, [Fixing America's Health Care](http://www.onpointradio.org/2004/01/fixing-americas-health-care), January 29, 2004

National Public Radio, *All Things Considered*, [Elderly Study](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1122641), May 8, 2001

**Web Videos**

The New Yorker, [Interview with David Cutler](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/jamessurowiecki/2009/12/video-david-cutler.html), January 3, 2010.

Big Think Interview, [Health Care Reform](http://bigthink.com/davidcutler), August 20, 2009.

Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, 31st Annual Conference, *Meeting the Challenge Transform the Healthcare System*, Keynote address, [Healthcare Reform and the Role of Health Information Technology](http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~pbrown/download/20090605_DavidCutler.mpg), June 5, 2009.

WGBH Forum Network, [Election 2008: Health Care in the Next Administration](http://forum-network.info/lecture/election-2008-health-care-next-administration), September 12, 2008. [ Edited version.](http://www.nejm.org/perspective/health-care-reform-video/)

**Recent Commentaries**

National Public Radio, *Morning Edition*, [What Does Obama's Health Plan Really Cost?](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95204017), September 30, 2008

National Public Radio, *Morning Edition*, [Plans To Cut Health Costs May Not Pay Off](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93847112), August 22, 2008

National Public Radio, *Morning Edition*, [Democrats Differ on Health Insurance](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19333944), February 25, 2008