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Elizabeth Warren talks turkey about Obamacare’s perverse incentives
Two days before Thanksgiving, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter with her colleague Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the impact of Obamacare’s medical loss ratio rules on insurer consolidation. It’s a striking, if tacit, admission of the law’s flaws by one of the nation’s leading ...
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Will Trump’s Hospital Price Transparency Rule Resurge?
One of President Donald J. Trump’s greatest health-policy coups during his term in office came in 2019. His executive order directed hospitals to disclose the prices of a range of services and treatments. The logic behind the order was straightforward. In order for healthcare markets to function efficiently, patients need ready access ...
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Reforming PBM Practices Would Improve The Pharmacy Market
Patients, the ultimate healthcare arbiter, continue to bear the costs from the perverse incentives driving the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) market. Because of these disincentives patients pay excessive out-of-pocket costs. Just as troubling, the misaligned incentives create impediments that dictate where patients can fill their prescriptions and which prescriptions they can ...
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CAPITAL IDEAS: A 2024 Healthcare Reform Agenda for Achieving Affordable, Accessible, High Quality Care
The following is text of a speech given by PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes to the BYU chapter of the Adam Smith Society. My charge today is to outline a policy reform agenda that will make affordable, accessible, and high-quality ...
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Read latest about push for single-payer
Doctors lobbying for Medicare for All should be careful what they wish for
Single-payer health care is what it sounds like — an insurance program where the government is the only insurer. Private insurance would be banned. And the government would pay health-care providers whatever it deemed appropriate and affordable. Read the full article at the New York Post
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Read Sally Pipes' latest at Forbes
A Long-Term Solution To America’s Long-Term Care Crisis
The growing need for long-term care among older adults is already sapping our economy, as working adults take time off to care for loved ones. It also saps the mental health of middle-aged people, who often find themselves struggling to balance competing needs from children, parents, and their jobs. Read ...
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Read Sally Pipes' latest at Newsmax
Is US Uninsured Crisis a Myth?
The report estimates that 24.3 million Americans lack health insurance in 2023, which amounts to just over 7% of the country. That might seem like an uncomfortably large figure. But consider another crucial fact. The overwhelming majority of uninsured residents — over 20 million — either have access to some ...
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Giving thanks for Medicare Advantage
Many seniors may be leaning toward selecting Medicare Advantage plans, and for good reason. The plans frequently deliver superior care at a lower cost than traditional Medicare. Read the full article at Washington Examiner . . .
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Learn about new minimum wage hike
Wage Hikes Won’t Fix US Healthcare
But this mandated wage hike may lead to fewer healthcare workers being asked to do more — and higher costs throughout the healthcare system. Hospitals that are unable to shoulder the immediate financial burdens created by the new minimum wage will fold — and make care even harder to come ...
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Read about state-level push for single-payer
State Legislatures Can’t Shake Their Single-Payer Dreams. That’s A Problem.
Michigan is the latest state to flirt with a government takeover of the health insurance system. Earlier this year, Democratic Rep. Carrie Rheingans, who represents Ann Arbor, and several of her colleagues introduced House Bill 4893, which would create a state-run single-payer healthcare system. It’s part of a nationwide trend. ...
Elizabeth Warren talks turkey about Obamacare’s perverse incentives
Two days before Thanksgiving, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter with her colleague Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the impact of Obamacare’s medical loss ratio rules on insurer consolidation. It’s a striking, if tacit, admission of the law’s flaws by one of the nation’s leading ...
Will Trump’s Hospital Price Transparency Rule Resurge?
One of President Donald J. Trump’s greatest health-policy coups during his term in office came in 2019. His executive order directed hospitals to disclose the prices of a range of services and treatments. The logic behind the order was straightforward. In order for healthcare markets to function efficiently, patients need ready access ...
Reforming PBM Practices Would Improve The Pharmacy Market
Patients, the ultimate healthcare arbiter, continue to bear the costs from the perverse incentives driving the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) market. Because of these disincentives patients pay excessive out-of-pocket costs. Just as troubling, the misaligned incentives create impediments that dictate where patients can fill their prescriptions and which prescriptions they can ...
CAPITAL IDEAS: A 2024 Healthcare Reform Agenda for Achieving Affordable, Accessible, High Quality Care
The following is text of a speech given by PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes to the BYU chapter of the Adam Smith Society. My charge today is to outline a policy reform agenda that will make affordable, accessible, and high-quality ...
Read latest about push for single-payer
Doctors lobbying for Medicare for All should be careful what they wish for
Single-payer health care is what it sounds like — an insurance program where the government is the only insurer. Private insurance would be banned. And the government would pay health-care providers whatever it deemed appropriate and affordable. Read the full article at the New York Post
Read Sally Pipes' latest at Forbes
A Long-Term Solution To America’s Long-Term Care Crisis
The growing need for long-term care among older adults is already sapping our economy, as working adults take time off to care for loved ones. It also saps the mental health of middle-aged people, who often find themselves struggling to balance competing needs from children, parents, and their jobs. Read ...
Read Sally Pipes' latest at Newsmax
Is US Uninsured Crisis a Myth?
The report estimates that 24.3 million Americans lack health insurance in 2023, which amounts to just over 7% of the country. That might seem like an uncomfortably large figure. But consider another crucial fact. The overwhelming majority of uninsured residents — over 20 million — either have access to some ...
Giving thanks for Medicare Advantage
Many seniors may be leaning toward selecting Medicare Advantage plans, and for good reason. The plans frequently deliver superior care at a lower cost than traditional Medicare. Read the full article at Washington Examiner . . .
Learn about new minimum wage hike
Wage Hikes Won’t Fix US Healthcare
But this mandated wage hike may lead to fewer healthcare workers being asked to do more — and higher costs throughout the healthcare system. Hospitals that are unable to shoulder the immediate financial burdens created by the new minimum wage will fold — and make care even harder to come ...
Read about state-level push for single-payer
State Legislatures Can’t Shake Their Single-Payer Dreams. That’s A Problem.
Michigan is the latest state to flirt with a government takeover of the health insurance system. Earlier this year, Democratic Rep. Carrie Rheingans, who represents Ann Arbor, and several of her colleagues introduced House Bill 4893, which would create a state-run single-payer healthcare system. It’s part of a nationwide trend. ...
