Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
Let these healthcare workers do their jobs
Floridians make countless visits to the state’s 18,000 nurse practitioners every year. These professionals have graduate degrees and advanced clinical training. But only about half of states allow them to diagnose and treat patients independently, even though they’re well-qualified to do so. Physician assistants, likewise, typically have master’s degrees and ...
Commentary
Budget Reconciliation Bill’s Healthcare Provisions Are Disastrous
Last week, House Democrats passed the $3.5 trillion budget resolution that their Senate counterparts approved earlier this month. The resolution is merely a framework, though. Over the coming months, lawmakers will write the actual legislative text of this mammoth spending bill, which could usher in the most radical changes to our healthcare ...
Commentary
Upsides are clear: Make the deregulation of telehealth permanent
Many Texans had their first-ever telehealth appointment at some point in the last 18 months—likely a video chat to talk symptoms, prescriptions, or follow-up care with a doctor. Once relatively rare, virtual doctor visits boomed during the pandemic, as public health measures kept us at home. Even giant companies are ...
Commentary
Democrats’ Budget Plan Hides a Slow-Moving Healthcare Takeover
Progressives just got one step closer to their dream of socialized health care. In a party-line vote this week, the Democratic House majority ratified a $3.5 trillion budget plan that includes the largest expansion of government-run health care in recent memory. Among other things, the proposal would lower Medicare’s eligibility ...
Commentary
Obamacare subsidies offer welfare to the wealthy
This week, the House of Representatives will consider the $3.5 trillion budget resolution that passed the Senate earlier this month. The proposal includes a host of liberal goals, including permanently extending certain Obamacare subsidies that Congress had previously made more generous only through 2022. These subsidies are already enormously expensive. ...
Commentary
Hold the Applause, Biden Shouldn’t Take an Obamacare Victory Lap
President Joe Biden has finally figured out how to get Americans onto the Obamacare exchanges — by paying them. The administration recently congratulated itself after 2.5 million Americans signed up for plans through the government-run marketplaces during a newly created Special Enrollment Period that closed August 15. But these figures don’t reflect newfound ...
California
Gavin Newsom Is Bad For California’s Health
On September 14, the people of California will have the chance—in a recall election—to oust Governor Gavin Newsom. His record over his more than two and a half years in power is checkered. Nowhere is that clearer than on health policy. Early in the pandemic, Newsom instituted some of America’s ...
Commentary
Hospitals need to comply with price transparency
Imagine you’re in the market for a new car. You go to the dealership, take a few models out for a test drive, and ultimately choose the one that has the features and driving experience you’re looking for. But now imagine that there’s no sticker price. You just tell the ...
Commentary
The Real Vaccine Skeptics Work at the FDA
Demonstrators in 50 cities across the country took the streets last month to demand a government takeover of America’s health system. The Democrats who control Washington are trying to give those activists what they’re asking for, albeit in piecemeal fashion. In recent weeks, they’ve proposed lowering Medicare’s eligibility age and adding dental, vision and hearing benefits ...
Commentary
Infrastructure bill’s ‘buy American’ provision inflates healthcare costs
The Senate is poised, on Tuesday, to pass a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. According to the latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, the new spending will increase the deficit by over $250 billion. The 2,700-page bill appropriates an avalanche of funding for everything from electric vehicle charging stations ...
Let these healthcare workers do their jobs
Floridians make countless visits to the state’s 18,000 nurse practitioners every year. These professionals have graduate degrees and advanced clinical training. But only about half of states allow them to diagnose and treat patients independently, even though they’re well-qualified to do so. Physician assistants, likewise, typically have master’s degrees and ...
Budget Reconciliation Bill’s Healthcare Provisions Are Disastrous
Last week, House Democrats passed the $3.5 trillion budget resolution that their Senate counterparts approved earlier this month. The resolution is merely a framework, though. Over the coming months, lawmakers will write the actual legislative text of this mammoth spending bill, which could usher in the most radical changes to our healthcare ...
Upsides are clear: Make the deregulation of telehealth permanent
Many Texans had their first-ever telehealth appointment at some point in the last 18 months—likely a video chat to talk symptoms, prescriptions, or follow-up care with a doctor. Once relatively rare, virtual doctor visits boomed during the pandemic, as public health measures kept us at home. Even giant companies are ...
Democrats’ Budget Plan Hides a Slow-Moving Healthcare Takeover
Progressives just got one step closer to their dream of socialized health care. In a party-line vote this week, the Democratic House majority ratified a $3.5 trillion budget plan that includes the largest expansion of government-run health care in recent memory. Among other things, the proposal would lower Medicare’s eligibility ...
Obamacare subsidies offer welfare to the wealthy
This week, the House of Representatives will consider the $3.5 trillion budget resolution that passed the Senate earlier this month. The proposal includes a host of liberal goals, including permanently extending certain Obamacare subsidies that Congress had previously made more generous only through 2022. These subsidies are already enormously expensive. ...
Hold the Applause, Biden Shouldn’t Take an Obamacare Victory Lap
President Joe Biden has finally figured out how to get Americans onto the Obamacare exchanges — by paying them. The administration recently congratulated itself after 2.5 million Americans signed up for plans through the government-run marketplaces during a newly created Special Enrollment Period that closed August 15. But these figures don’t reflect newfound ...
Gavin Newsom Is Bad For California’s Health
On September 14, the people of California will have the chance—in a recall election—to oust Governor Gavin Newsom. His record over his more than two and a half years in power is checkered. Nowhere is that clearer than on health policy. Early in the pandemic, Newsom instituted some of America’s ...
Hospitals need to comply with price transparency
Imagine you’re in the market for a new car. You go to the dealership, take a few models out for a test drive, and ultimately choose the one that has the features and driving experience you’re looking for. But now imagine that there’s no sticker price. You just tell the ...
The Real Vaccine Skeptics Work at the FDA
Demonstrators in 50 cities across the country took the streets last month to demand a government takeover of America’s health system. The Democrats who control Washington are trying to give those activists what they’re asking for, albeit in piecemeal fashion. In recent weeks, they’ve proposed lowering Medicare’s eligibility age and adding dental, vision and hearing benefits ...
Infrastructure bill’s ‘buy American’ provision inflates healthcare costs
The Senate is poised, on Tuesday, to pass a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. According to the latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, the new spending will increase the deficit by over $250 billion. The 2,700-page bill appropriates an avalanche of funding for everything from electric vehicle charging stations ...
