of the US banking system (with Laurence Kotlikoff) in the New Republic called for 100% reserves for all credit market institutions as a way of preventing future financial crises. His proposal to let people allocate their own welfare tax dollars has had a lot of appeal in conservative circles. In a version of the idea, 17 states now allow a dollar-for-dollar reduction in taxes for contributions to private schools and charter schools. His case for school choice, presented in a classic debate at Howard University, was published in the Howard Law Review. His work with Thomas Saving and Andrew Rettenmaier (Texas A & M) has produced a proposal for privatizing Medicare, similar to previous proposals for privatizing Social Security. His "enterprise program" proposal to allow businesses that provide essential services to low-income customers to avoid many government regulations—including occupational licensing—has proved appealing, both to the right and the left. His proposal to replace medical malpractice law with no-fault compensation has been proposed in Georgia and Florida. Television debates Goodman appeared about two dozen times as a guest on William F. Buckley's PBS Firing Line program in the 1990s. About a half dozen of these were two-hour debates that pitted Goodman, Buckley and two colleagues against four opponents. They covered such topics as the flat tax, school vouchers, Social Security privatization, Health Savings Accounts and privatizing the welfare state. This was the first time these ideas had ever been aired on national television. Buckley and Goodman were joined by such debating partners as former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont, former Treasury Secretary Pete Peterson, Senator Phil Gramm, economist Thomas Sowell and California Governor Jerry Brown (arguing for the flat tax). The opposing sides included former presidential candidate George McGovern, Senator Jay Rockefeller, MIT economist Lester Thurow, Nobel Laurate Kenneth Arrow and TV commentator Susan Estrich. Firing Line's producer, Warren Steibel, later produced another TV program called Debates/Debates. Goodman served as team captain on many of those programs. Publications The Regulation of Medical Care: Is the Price Too High? (Cato public policy research monograph) (1980) National Health Care in Great Britain (1980) Social Security in the United Kingdom: Contracting Out of the System (Aei Studies, 335) (1981) Economics of Public Policy: The Micro View, with Edwin G. Dolan (1985) Privatization. (1985) National Center for Policy Analysis. Fighting the War of Ideas in Latin America, with Ramona Marotz-Baden (1990) Patient Power: Solving America's