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Read about recent healthcare professional needs
Scope-of-practice reforms can address doctor shortage
America is facing a chronic doctor shortage. Solving that problem will require not just more doctors but a much bigger role for advanced-practice nurses in our healthcare system. A 2021 report found that the United States will need nearly as many as 48,000 more primary care doctors by 2034 to ...
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Medicaid Work Requirements Address Laziness Head On
The spending cuts included in the bill House Republicans passed in late April to raise the debt ceiling have Democrats up in arms. But federal spending has soared. It’s now 5 percentage points higher as a share of GDP than the average since 1960. As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy quipped this week, “Is it ...
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Read latest on drug pricing
The Continuing Danger From Progressive’s Faulty Excess Profit Allegations
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) continuously confirm Alexander Pope’s famous maxim about a little bit of knowledge. It truly is a dangerous thing, especially in the hands of politicians. During a May 11th meeting of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, Sen. ...
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Read about Biden's latest policy proposal
Time for Hospitals to Come Clean About Pricing
The Biden administration is cracking down on hospitals that keep their prices secret. Under a policy announced last week, failing to abide by Trump-era hospital price transparency rules will no longer prompt a warning letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Instead, hospitals will have 45 days to ...
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Don’t Expect Life Expectancy To Explain American Health Care
Misinformation is killing Americans. At least, that’s what one of America’s top public health officials says. Speaking to CNBC in April, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf said misinformation is part of the reason Americans have lower life expectancies than people in other wealthy nations. The FDA chief is hardly ...
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Read this recent healthcare op-ed on irresponsible Colorado legislation
Banning Healthcare Facility Fees Is Bad News For Colorado
Colorado lawmakers are considering HB 23-1215, a measure that would ban certain types of “facility fees.” These are charges patients receive from a hospital or clinic in addition to their share of the cost of a procedure, sometimes without advance notice. Nobody likes being surprised by a medical bill. But scrapping ...
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The Federal Gov Is $31 Trillion In Debt
Sorry, taxpayers can’t afford unlimited Obamacare subsidies
Congress returns from a spring recess on Monday. In early March, President Joe Biden released his $6.8 trillion spending plan for fiscal 2024, complete with a proposal to permanently extend the generous healthcare insurance subsidies enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan Act passed in March 2021. Many Republicans are insisting on spending cuts, ...
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Free-Market Solutions to Improving American Health Care
Editor’s note: Today’s blog is part three of a three part series featuring PRI’s CEO & President Sally Pipes’ health care speech delivered at Reason Weekend on March 18th. As you’ve heard today, there’s no shortage of evidence that neither federal entitlement programs nor government-run healthcare systems can provide patients ...
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QALYs block life-saving drugs
Don’t Let Progressives Assign A Dollar Value To Human Life
How do you measure a year? Your desk calendar might suggest months or days. The musical “Rent” famously offered 525,600 minutes and a number of other more creative metrics. Ask a progressive health policy expert, though, and they may give you the most shocking option of all. For years, progressives ...
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Flaws with Our Current Healthcare System
Editor’s note: Today’s blog is part one of a three part series featuring PRI’s CEO & President Sally Pipes’ health care speech delivered at Reason Weekend on March 18th. Winston Churchill once said that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been ...
Read about recent healthcare professional needs
Scope-of-practice reforms can address doctor shortage
America is facing a chronic doctor shortage. Solving that problem will require not just more doctors but a much bigger role for advanced-practice nurses in our healthcare system. A 2021 report found that the United States will need nearly as many as 48,000 more primary care doctors by 2034 to ...
Medicaid Work Requirements Address Laziness Head On
The spending cuts included in the bill House Republicans passed in late April to raise the debt ceiling have Democrats up in arms. But federal spending has soared. It’s now 5 percentage points higher as a share of GDP than the average since 1960. As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy quipped this week, “Is it ...
Read latest on drug pricing
The Continuing Danger From Progressive’s Faulty Excess Profit Allegations
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) continuously confirm Alexander Pope’s famous maxim about a little bit of knowledge. It truly is a dangerous thing, especially in the hands of politicians. During a May 11th meeting of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, Sen. ...
Read about Biden's latest policy proposal
Time for Hospitals to Come Clean About Pricing
The Biden administration is cracking down on hospitals that keep their prices secret. Under a policy announced last week, failing to abide by Trump-era hospital price transparency rules will no longer prompt a warning letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Instead, hospitals will have 45 days to ...
Don’t Expect Life Expectancy To Explain American Health Care
Misinformation is killing Americans. At least, that’s what one of America’s top public health officials says. Speaking to CNBC in April, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf said misinformation is part of the reason Americans have lower life expectancies than people in other wealthy nations. The FDA chief is hardly ...
Read this recent healthcare op-ed on irresponsible Colorado legislation
Banning Healthcare Facility Fees Is Bad News For Colorado
Colorado lawmakers are considering HB 23-1215, a measure that would ban certain types of “facility fees.” These are charges patients receive from a hospital or clinic in addition to their share of the cost of a procedure, sometimes without advance notice. Nobody likes being surprised by a medical bill. But scrapping ...
The Federal Gov Is $31 Trillion In Debt
Sorry, taxpayers can’t afford unlimited Obamacare subsidies
Congress returns from a spring recess on Monday. In early March, President Joe Biden released his $6.8 trillion spending plan for fiscal 2024, complete with a proposal to permanently extend the generous healthcare insurance subsidies enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan Act passed in March 2021. Many Republicans are insisting on spending cuts, ...
Free-Market Solutions to Improving American Health Care
Editor’s note: Today’s blog is part three of a three part series featuring PRI’s CEO & President Sally Pipes’ health care speech delivered at Reason Weekend on March 18th. As you’ve heard today, there’s no shortage of evidence that neither federal entitlement programs nor government-run healthcare systems can provide patients ...
QALYs block life-saving drugs
Don’t Let Progressives Assign A Dollar Value To Human Life
How do you measure a year? Your desk calendar might suggest months or days. The musical “Rent” famously offered 525,600 minutes and a number of other more creative metrics. Ask a progressive health policy expert, though, and they may give you the most shocking option of all. For years, progressives ...
Flaws with Our Current Healthcare System
Editor’s note: Today’s blog is part one of a three part series featuring PRI’s CEO & President Sally Pipes’ health care speech delivered at Reason Weekend on March 18th. Winston Churchill once said that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been ...
