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Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom To Propose Universal Health Care In Race To Succeed Jerry Brown

Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is drafting a health care plan for California that he plans to unveil as a core component of his gubernatorial run, based in part on the universal health care program he signed into law when he was mayor of San Francisco. Newsom, seen as a ...
Health Care

Bay Area Obamacare Critics: Are They Happy Now?

But are they happy now that GOP leaders in the House of Representatives have finally announced their plan to replace the law? The reaction from Obamacare critics in the Bay Area ranges from hopeful to cautiously optimistic to downright disgusted — no doubt an indication of why the House Republicans’ ...
Commentary

Sally Pipes Speaks At Steamboat Institute Conference on Health Care After Obamacare

Watch Sally Pipes discuss efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare as part of a recent Steamboat Institute conference held in Monterey, CA. She is joined on the panel by Hal Scherz, M.D, the founder of Docs 4 Patient Care, and Hadley Heath Manning, Tony Blankley Fellow for the Steamboat Institute ...
Commentary

Our Veterans Deserve Real Health Care Choices

Late last month, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin offered a plan to let veterans escape the VA’s beleaguered health system. His proposal would expand the agency’s existing Veterans Choice Program — an initiative that was supposed to allow veterans to seek care from private health care providers if they face ...
Commentary

Republicans’ Health Care Bill Is America’s Best Chance To End Obamacare

The most noteworthy thing about the House Republican leadership’s new American Health Care Act is that a lot of Republicans appear to be unhappy with it. It leaves in place some of Obamacare’s most destructive provisions. For instance, the reform allows children to stay on their parents’ plans until 26, ...
Commentary

House Republican Plan Only The First Step Toward Repealing And Replacing Obamacare

Yesterday, the House Republican leadership formally unveiled their effort to repeal and replace Obamacare — the American Health Care Act. The legislation is far from a free-marketer’s dream. But it may also represent the only politically viable way to repeal Obamacare — and set the stage for a replacement that ...
Business & Economics

Reform Pharmacy Benefit Managers (Pbms) To Improve Pharmaceutical Affordability

Imagine if you never had to directly pay for your morning cup of coffee again. Instead, a coffee insurer guaranteed that, for a small co-pay, you could enjoy a cup of coffee every morning. Sounds good? The catch, and there is always a catch, is the caveat “directly pay.” In ...
Commentary

Republican Plan Will Give Young People A Break On Health Insurance

The left’s latest complaint about House Republicans’ plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is that it unfairly raises insurance premiums for older Americans. The GOP’s draft bill, which leaked on February 24, would do away with Obamacare’s community rating rule, which prevents insurers from charging older patients any more than ...
Commentary

Hidden ER Costs Undermine Health Markets

Imagine you’re traveling in a different state when, suddenly, you begin to feel severe abdominal pain. Being unfamiliar with the area and wanting to avoid hefty out-of-network bills, you call your insurance company to find an in-network hospital. After receiving some medication and a few routine tests in the emergency ...
Health Care

No Walls Here

The thinking goes in Washington, D.C., that if you say something three times, it becomes a fact. Thankfully, out here in flyover country, that’s not the case. Just repeating something over and over–the Republicans have no ideas on health care!–doesn’t make it so. One of the best ideas to improve ...
Health Care

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom To Propose Universal Health Care In Race To Succeed Jerry Brown

Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is drafting a health care plan for California that he plans to unveil as a core component of his gubernatorial run, based in part on the universal health care program he signed into law when he was mayor of San Francisco. Newsom, seen as a ...
Health Care

Bay Area Obamacare Critics: Are They Happy Now?

But are they happy now that GOP leaders in the House of Representatives have finally announced their plan to replace the law? The reaction from Obamacare critics in the Bay Area ranges from hopeful to cautiously optimistic to downright disgusted — no doubt an indication of why the House Republicans’ ...
Commentary

Sally Pipes Speaks At Steamboat Institute Conference on Health Care After Obamacare

Watch Sally Pipes discuss efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare as part of a recent Steamboat Institute conference held in Monterey, CA. She is joined on the panel by Hal Scherz, M.D, the founder of Docs 4 Patient Care, and Hadley Heath Manning, Tony Blankley Fellow for the Steamboat Institute ...
Commentary

Our Veterans Deserve Real Health Care Choices

Late last month, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin offered a plan to let veterans escape the VA’s beleaguered health system. His proposal would expand the agency’s existing Veterans Choice Program — an initiative that was supposed to allow veterans to seek care from private health care providers if they face ...
Commentary

Republicans’ Health Care Bill Is America’s Best Chance To End Obamacare

The most noteworthy thing about the House Republican leadership’s new American Health Care Act is that a lot of Republicans appear to be unhappy with it. It leaves in place some of Obamacare’s most destructive provisions. For instance, the reform allows children to stay on their parents’ plans until 26, ...
Commentary

House Republican Plan Only The First Step Toward Repealing And Replacing Obamacare

Yesterday, the House Republican leadership formally unveiled their effort to repeal and replace Obamacare — the American Health Care Act. The legislation is far from a free-marketer’s dream. But it may also represent the only politically viable way to repeal Obamacare — and set the stage for a replacement that ...
Business & Economics

Reform Pharmacy Benefit Managers (Pbms) To Improve Pharmaceutical Affordability

Imagine if you never had to directly pay for your morning cup of coffee again. Instead, a coffee insurer guaranteed that, for a small co-pay, you could enjoy a cup of coffee every morning. Sounds good? The catch, and there is always a catch, is the caveat “directly pay.” In ...
Commentary

Republican Plan Will Give Young People A Break On Health Insurance

The left’s latest complaint about House Republicans’ plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is that it unfairly raises insurance premiums for older Americans. The GOP’s draft bill, which leaked on February 24, would do away with Obamacare’s community rating rule, which prevents insurers from charging older patients any more than ...
Commentary

Hidden ER Costs Undermine Health Markets

Imagine you’re traveling in a different state when, suddenly, you begin to feel severe abdominal pain. Being unfamiliar with the area and wanting to avoid hefty out-of-network bills, you call your insurance company to find an in-network hospital. After receiving some medication and a few routine tests in the emergency ...
Health Care

No Walls Here

The thinking goes in Washington, D.C., that if you say something three times, it becomes a fact. Thankfully, out here in flyover country, that’s not the case. Just repeating something over and over–the Republicans have no ideas on health care!–doesn’t make it so. One of the best ideas to improve ...
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