Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
States must remove government-imposed barriers to affordable and timely health care
The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency last month marked the end of several government waivers that helped expand access to care during the pandemic. Many of those waivers deserve to be made permanent. Paramount among them is the suspension of “certificate-of-need” laws that require health care providers to ...
Commentary
After COVID, Medicaid enrollment is declining. That’s cause for celebration
For most Americans, the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency was a relief. But some progressive activists and politicians would seemingly prefer that the crisis — and the gusher of federal spending it unleashed — never end. Democrats are telling everyone who will listen that the end of the ...
Commentary
Read about Medicare's downfalls on its 58th birthday
Medicare Enters its 58th Year in Poor Health
Medicare celebrated its 58th birthday on July 30. Unfortunately, the healthcare entitlement for seniors and the disabled isn’t aging gracefully. If current trends continue, Medicare’s Part A hospital insurance trust fund will run out of cash in just eight years. By then, roughly one in five Americans will be 65 or older and — thus eligible ...
Commentary
Hospitals are still neglecting transparency rules
The nonprofit group Patient Rights Advocate just published its fifth report exploring how hospitals are complying with federal price transparency requirements. About two-thirds are still flouting the rules. That’s unacceptable. Noncompliant hospitals are preventing patients and payers from shopping around for high-value care — and inflating healthcare costs in the process. The price transparency regulations went ...
Commentary
Medicare And Medicaid’s Midlife Crisis Should Be A Wake-Up Call For Reform
Sunday, July 30, marks the 58th anniversary of the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. They came into being in 1965 under President Lyndon Johnson and his “Great Society” program. Unfortunately, the programs are finishing out their sixth decade in a state of crisis. They’ve ballooned into enormously costly entitlements that ...
Commentary
PBM Industry Shadowy, Congress Shines Much Needed Light
The last few months have seen a flurry of activity on Capitol Hill regarding prescription drug reform, with a particular focus on pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs. The U.S. Senate Finance Committee is set to markup a bipartisan PBM reform bill within the next few days. The House Energy and Commerce ...
Commentary
President Biden Is Taking Affordable Health Insurance Away From Millions Of Americans
President Biden is reaching back into his old boss’s policy playbook to put new restrictions on short-term health plans. This month, the White House proposed a rule that will restore Obama-era limits on the plans. The president has derided short-term insurance as “junk” that offers little protection from big potential healthcare expenses. ...
Commentary
President Biden just released his "Bidenomics" policy agenda
Biden’s Anti-Patient Agenda Is Dangerous, Yet Media Applauds
President Joe Biden just released his “Bidenomics” policy agenda, which he claims will “lower healthcare costs.” Among his first orders of business? Effectively banning some of the most affordable health plans on the market. On July 7, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury published a proposed rule that would ...
Commentary
Read the latest on short-term health plans
Forcing people off short-term health plans is the real insurance scam
The Biden administration recently proposed new regulations that would curb short-term health plans — or, as the White House likes to call them, “junk” or “scam” insurance. But the true scam is this attempt to deprive people of affordable coverage they like. Short-term plans aren’t subject to Obamacare’s many cost-inflating regulations, including requirements that insurers cover 10 essential health ...
Commentary
Reimagine Health Insurance Away from Routine Maintenance
The health insurance system fails most Americans, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Nearly 6 in 10 insured adults have trouble using their coverage. Within that group, nearly 1 in 5 was unable to get needed care. It’s tempting to see this survey data as proof that health insurers aren’t doing ...
States must remove government-imposed barriers to affordable and timely health care
The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency last month marked the end of several government waivers that helped expand access to care during the pandemic. Many of those waivers deserve to be made permanent. Paramount among them is the suspension of “certificate-of-need” laws that require health care providers to ...
After COVID, Medicaid enrollment is declining. That’s cause for celebration
For most Americans, the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency was a relief. But some progressive activists and politicians would seemingly prefer that the crisis — and the gusher of federal spending it unleashed — never end. Democrats are telling everyone who will listen that the end of the ...
Read about Medicare's downfalls on its 58th birthday
Medicare Enters its 58th Year in Poor Health
Medicare celebrated its 58th birthday on July 30. Unfortunately, the healthcare entitlement for seniors and the disabled isn’t aging gracefully. If current trends continue, Medicare’s Part A hospital insurance trust fund will run out of cash in just eight years. By then, roughly one in five Americans will be 65 or older and — thus eligible ...
Hospitals are still neglecting transparency rules
The nonprofit group Patient Rights Advocate just published its fifth report exploring how hospitals are complying with federal price transparency requirements. About two-thirds are still flouting the rules. That’s unacceptable. Noncompliant hospitals are preventing patients and payers from shopping around for high-value care — and inflating healthcare costs in the process. The price transparency regulations went ...
Medicare And Medicaid’s Midlife Crisis Should Be A Wake-Up Call For Reform
Sunday, July 30, marks the 58th anniversary of the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. They came into being in 1965 under President Lyndon Johnson and his “Great Society” program. Unfortunately, the programs are finishing out their sixth decade in a state of crisis. They’ve ballooned into enormously costly entitlements that ...
PBM Industry Shadowy, Congress Shines Much Needed Light
The last few months have seen a flurry of activity on Capitol Hill regarding prescription drug reform, with a particular focus on pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs. The U.S. Senate Finance Committee is set to markup a bipartisan PBM reform bill within the next few days. The House Energy and Commerce ...
President Biden Is Taking Affordable Health Insurance Away From Millions Of Americans
President Biden is reaching back into his old boss’s policy playbook to put new restrictions on short-term health plans. This month, the White House proposed a rule that will restore Obama-era limits on the plans. The president has derided short-term insurance as “junk” that offers little protection from big potential healthcare expenses. ...
President Biden just released his "Bidenomics" policy agenda
Biden’s Anti-Patient Agenda Is Dangerous, Yet Media Applauds
President Joe Biden just released his “Bidenomics” policy agenda, which he claims will “lower healthcare costs.” Among his first orders of business? Effectively banning some of the most affordable health plans on the market. On July 7, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury published a proposed rule that would ...
Read the latest on short-term health plans
Forcing people off short-term health plans is the real insurance scam
The Biden administration recently proposed new regulations that would curb short-term health plans — or, as the White House likes to call them, “junk” or “scam” insurance. But the true scam is this attempt to deprive people of affordable coverage they like. Short-term plans aren’t subject to Obamacare’s many cost-inflating regulations, including requirements that insurers cover 10 essential health ...
Reimagine Health Insurance Away from Routine Maintenance
The health insurance system fails most Americans, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Nearly 6 in 10 insured adults have trouble using their coverage. Within that group, nearly 1 in 5 was unable to get needed care. It’s tempting to see this survey data as proof that health insurers aren’t doing ...
