Health Care
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Democrats in Calif. Put Healthcare of Illegal Residents First
Free healthcare doesn’t come cheap. That’s one lesson Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., is learning the hard way. Since Newsom officially extended the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to all undocumented immigrants last year, the entitlement’s costs have ballooned. Read the op-ed here.
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Big savings can be found in improper Medicare spending
Republicans are searching for ways to eliminate “fraud, waste, and abuse” in Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement created to provide health coverage for low-income, pregnant, homeless, and disabled people. It’s long past time. According to a new report from the Paragon Health Institute’s Brian Blase and the Economic Policy Innovation Center’s ...
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Imposing Price Controls on U.S. Drugs Won’t Level the Playing Field
The cost of capital for developing a new drug is $2.9 billion, including post approval research and development costs. Meanwhile, the process to develop a drug takes 10 years and only 12 percent of drugs make it to market. These costs do not change simply because governments impose price controls ...
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Social Needs-Based Medicaid a Costly, Useless ATM
Earlier this month, the Trump administration rescinded the Biden-era guidance for states on how to get the federal government to pay for “health-related social needs” via Medicaid. The guidance stretched the definition of “healthcare” to absurd lengths. Are carpet replacement and tenant-rights education healthcare? The Biden administration thought so. Read ...
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The Future of Healthcare Under Donald Trump
On this episode of All Things, Sally Pipes–healthcare aficionado and author of “The World’s Medicine Chest”–lays out the risks of Joe Biden’s coming drug price controls, the need to cut billions in waste and fraud from Medicaid, the fading chances for replacing ObamaCare, and the upsides and downsides of some ...
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Bernie Sanders Is Back. That’s Bad News For American Healthcare.
Is Bernie Sanders back? Earlier this month, the Associated Press proclaimed that Sanders has emerged as one of the leaders of a revived “anti-Trump resistance.” The 83-year-old senator is touring the country, “drawing huge crowds” who come to hear him talk about democracy, education, and health care. Read the op-ed ...
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Trump is fighting Biden’s drug-price battle — but patients will pay the cost
The Trump administration is experiencing some cognitive dissonance: The new president’s Justice Department is going to bat for former President Joe Biden and his signature legislative accomplishment. Senior Justice officials say they’ll head to court to stick up for Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and its price controls on prescription drugs. ...
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Read the latest about the problems with single-payer health care
Single-Payer Systems Fail Children and Cancer Patients
But the real test of any healthcare system is whether it delivers timely, effective care. And in their latest installments in the American Action Forum’s “Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Michael Baker investigate that question in two key areas: pediatrics and cancer. Holtz-Eakin dives into ...
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Medicare fraud should be next in line for DOGE
The Department of Government Efficiency’s crackdown on waste, fraud and abuse is off to a fast start. But as an engine of government savings, DOGE still has substantial untapped potential. That’s because it hasn’t yet addressed the fraud crippling one of the federal government’s largest programs: Medicare. In fiscal year ...
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Republicans’ Free Chance To Save Sick Kids
Right now, Congress has a chance to save the lives of countless sick children—without spending a dime of taxpayer money. It could seize that opportunity by reauthorizing the Pediatric Priority Review Voucher (PPRV) program—which incentivizes companies to invest in lifesaving but financially risky treatments for rare pediatric diseases. Read the ...
Democrats in Calif. Put Healthcare of Illegal Residents First
Free healthcare doesn’t come cheap. That’s one lesson Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., is learning the hard way. Since Newsom officially extended the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to all undocumented immigrants last year, the entitlement’s costs have ballooned. Read the op-ed here.
Big savings can be found in improper Medicare spending
Republicans are searching for ways to eliminate “fraud, waste, and abuse” in Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement created to provide health coverage for low-income, pregnant, homeless, and disabled people. It’s long past time. According to a new report from the Paragon Health Institute’s Brian Blase and the Economic Policy Innovation Center’s ...
Imposing Price Controls on U.S. Drugs Won’t Level the Playing Field
The cost of capital for developing a new drug is $2.9 billion, including post approval research and development costs. Meanwhile, the process to develop a drug takes 10 years and only 12 percent of drugs make it to market. These costs do not change simply because governments impose price controls ...
Social Needs-Based Medicaid a Costly, Useless ATM
Earlier this month, the Trump administration rescinded the Biden-era guidance for states on how to get the federal government to pay for “health-related social needs” via Medicaid. The guidance stretched the definition of “healthcare” to absurd lengths. Are carpet replacement and tenant-rights education healthcare? The Biden administration thought so. Read ...
The Future of Healthcare Under Donald Trump
On this episode of All Things, Sally Pipes–healthcare aficionado and author of “The World’s Medicine Chest”–lays out the risks of Joe Biden’s coming drug price controls, the need to cut billions in waste and fraud from Medicaid, the fading chances for replacing ObamaCare, and the upsides and downsides of some ...
Bernie Sanders Is Back. That’s Bad News For American Healthcare.
Is Bernie Sanders back? Earlier this month, the Associated Press proclaimed that Sanders has emerged as one of the leaders of a revived “anti-Trump resistance.” The 83-year-old senator is touring the country, “drawing huge crowds” who come to hear him talk about democracy, education, and health care. Read the op-ed ...
Trump is fighting Biden’s drug-price battle — but patients will pay the cost
The Trump administration is experiencing some cognitive dissonance: The new president’s Justice Department is going to bat for former President Joe Biden and his signature legislative accomplishment. Senior Justice officials say they’ll head to court to stick up for Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and its price controls on prescription drugs. ...
Read the latest about the problems with single-payer health care
Single-Payer Systems Fail Children and Cancer Patients
But the real test of any healthcare system is whether it delivers timely, effective care. And in their latest installments in the American Action Forum’s “Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Michael Baker investigate that question in two key areas: pediatrics and cancer. Holtz-Eakin dives into ...
Medicare fraud should be next in line for DOGE
The Department of Government Efficiency’s crackdown on waste, fraud and abuse is off to a fast start. But as an engine of government savings, DOGE still has substantial untapped potential. That’s because it hasn’t yet addressed the fraud crippling one of the federal government’s largest programs: Medicare. In fiscal year ...
Republicans’ Free Chance To Save Sick Kids
Right now, Congress has a chance to save the lives of countless sick children—without spending a dime of taxpayer money. It could seize that opportunity by reauthorizing the Pediatric Priority Review Voucher (PPRV) program—which incentivizes companies to invest in lifesaving but financially risky treatments for rare pediatric diseases. Read the ...
