Health Care
Commentary
Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Define Taking Without Giving
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is projecting that some 2.2 million people will become uninsured in 2026 if the enhanced premium subsidies that Democrats green-lit for exchange coverage expire as scheduled at the end of next year. Eventually, the CBO says, the end of those subsidies will result in 3.8 ...
Commentary
It Turns Out Americans Really Love Their Health Care
Are Americans truly sick and tired of their healthcare system? Social media has been alight with stories about insurance companies denying claims or limiting access to care in the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO earlier this month. But the public’s attitude toward health care in the real world ...
assisted suicide
Mushrooming health subsidies are creating sick incentives for government to push suicide
Speaker Mike Johnson this month blasted the United Kingdom’s brand-new assisted suicide law, which will allow doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives. “Any society that rejects that truth about life as a gift from our creator and adopts a culture of death . . . is in ...
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Compared to Other Nations, the U.S. Health Care System Isn’t So Bad
Following the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the mores of the farthest reaches of social media have made their way to Congress. Last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said, “The visceral response from people across the country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of ...
Commentary
No to Socialized Medicine for Already Overburdened Veterans
A bill introduced by U.S. House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., last week promises to make private healthcare more accessible to veterans. The Complete the Mission Act expands on a similar measure signed into law in 2018 by President Trump. The GOP’s renewed interest in this issue ...
Commentary
Here’s What’s in Trump’s Healthcare Plan
The American people are about to find out what Donald Trump meant when he said he had “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform. It’s reasonable to expect market-oriented changes that lead to more choices, lower costs and better stewardship of taxpayer dollars. One of the most important actions Trump ...
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Trump’s Surprising Healthcare Ally
President-elect Donald Trump and his British counterpart, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, don’t agree on much. But on health care, the two men seem to share a common vision — a smaller role for government. During the presidential campaign, Trump warned voters that Kamala Harris “wants everybody to be on government ...
Commentary
What’s up with US life expectancy?
U.S. life expectancy is, surprisingly enough, on the rise. According to a new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Americans can expect to live 80.4 years in 2050, up from 78.3 years in 2022. But it’s rising even more in other countries. In 2050, the United States ...
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Dear Elon, Add Medicare ‘Site-Neutrality’ To DOGE’s To-Do List
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have declared war on government bloat. They hope to use the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to axe wasteful spending and slash bureaucratic red tape that costs Americans trillions of dollars in foregone economic growth. One of the best places to start would ...
Commentary
Power to the Patients
America’s health bill will surpass $7.7 trillion by 2032. That’s equivalent to one in every five dollars flowing through the economy. To address this crisis, we must make health care work like other sectors of our economy, rather than the bloated, over-regulated mess it is today. And that will require ...
Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Define Taking Without Giving
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is projecting that some 2.2 million people will become uninsured in 2026 if the enhanced premium subsidies that Democrats green-lit for exchange coverage expire as scheduled at the end of next year. Eventually, the CBO says, the end of those subsidies will result in 3.8 ...
It Turns Out Americans Really Love Their Health Care
Are Americans truly sick and tired of their healthcare system? Social media has been alight with stories about insurance companies denying claims or limiting access to care in the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO earlier this month. But the public’s attitude toward health care in the real world ...
Mushrooming health subsidies are creating sick incentives for government to push suicide
Speaker Mike Johnson this month blasted the United Kingdom’s brand-new assisted suicide law, which will allow doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives. “Any society that rejects that truth about life as a gift from our creator and adopts a culture of death . . . is in ...
Compared to Other Nations, the U.S. Health Care System Isn’t So Bad
Following the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the mores of the farthest reaches of social media have made their way to Congress. Last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said, “The visceral response from people across the country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of ...
No to Socialized Medicine for Already Overburdened Veterans
A bill introduced by U.S. House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., last week promises to make private healthcare more accessible to veterans. The Complete the Mission Act expands on a similar measure signed into law in 2018 by President Trump. The GOP’s renewed interest in this issue ...
Here’s What’s in Trump’s Healthcare Plan
The American people are about to find out what Donald Trump meant when he said he had “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform. It’s reasonable to expect market-oriented changes that lead to more choices, lower costs and better stewardship of taxpayer dollars. One of the most important actions Trump ...
Trump’s Surprising Healthcare Ally
President-elect Donald Trump and his British counterpart, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, don’t agree on much. But on health care, the two men seem to share a common vision — a smaller role for government. During the presidential campaign, Trump warned voters that Kamala Harris “wants everybody to be on government ...
What’s up with US life expectancy?
U.S. life expectancy is, surprisingly enough, on the rise. According to a new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Americans can expect to live 80.4 years in 2050, up from 78.3 years in 2022. But it’s rising even more in other countries. In 2050, the United States ...
Dear Elon, Add Medicare ‘Site-Neutrality’ To DOGE’s To-Do List
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have declared war on government bloat. They hope to use the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to axe wasteful spending and slash bureaucratic red tape that costs Americans trillions of dollars in foregone economic growth. One of the best places to start would ...
Power to the Patients
America’s health bill will surpass $7.7 trillion by 2032. That’s equivalent to one in every five dollars flowing through the economy. To address this crisis, we must make health care work like other sectors of our economy, rather than the bloated, over-regulated mess it is today. And that will require ...
