Health Care
Commentary
Learn how PBMs pocket savings intended for patients
How Long Can Pharmacy Benefit Managers Go Unchecked?
Last week, a House subcommittee held a hearing on pharmacy benefit managers and their impact on the prices patients pay for prescription drugs. The hearing speaks to voters’ concerns. Republicans and Democrats alike have identified the cost of prescription drugs as their No. 2 health care concern, according to polling ...
Commentary
Read about the Trump and Harris health care plans
Trump Has a Plan for Healthcare
Harris, by contrast, has been mum on whether she continues to support a government takeover of the health insurance system as she did during her first run for the presidency. Instead, she has said that she wants to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and extend President Joe Biden’s ruinously expensive scheme ...
Commentary
Learn about the latest problems with Obamacare
Americans Don’t Want Obamacare’s High Maintenance
At last week’s presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked about her previous support for Medicare For All, a $44 trillion proposal that would outlaw private insurance. She backed away from the questions, saying, “What we need to do is maintain and grow the Affordable Care Act.” Read the full ...
Blog
Learn how drug price controls hurt patients, innovation
Senator Sanders’ Price Controls Will Harm Patients
In a patently politicized press release, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) who is Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, claims that the U.S. price of Ozempic is too high. As evidence, he cites generic companies that claim they can sell Ozempic for less than $100 a ...
Commentary
Drug Companies Are Embracing Direct-To-Consumer Sales. That’s A Win For Patients.
Fortunately, that’s starting to change. In recent months, drug companies Pfizer and Eli Lilly have begun rolling out direct-to-consumer programs that let patients purchase basic prescriptions remotely. This development is a huge win for patients. Not only are direct-to-consumer offerings more convenient. They can also provide a jolt of competition ...
Commentary
Kamala Harris’ worst plan yet: bringing the NHS to America
Something, of course, must be done. Less than one in four people are satisfied with the NHS and its outdated centralised system of universal coverage, which routinely fails to provide adequate services. Some 7.6 million patients, including individuals suffering from cancer, are waiting to start treatment. About half have waited ...
Commentary
Read the latest about the problems with Obamacare
Junk Health Insurance? It’s Called Obamacare
The exchanges, in other words, are failing at one of their most fundamental jobs: expanding access to quality health care. Taxpayers cannot afford to divert yet more public money to subsidizing substandard exchange plans, as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has called for. Read the full article at Newsmax
Commentary
Learn why drug price controls don't work
The Expected Consequences Of Price Controls
The intended consequence of the policy is to reduce overall spending on drugs, but all regulations have unintended consequences, too. While these consequences may be unintended, they need not be unexpected. In the case of the IRA, these unintended impacts now threaten to undermine the entire purpose of the policy. ...
Commentary
Trump is wrong about IVF
That is certainly true. But socializing coverage of IVF, or mandating that insurance pays for it, draws from the same Democratic playbook that has caused the cost of health coverage to surge. Read the full article at the Washington Examiner
Commentary
This November, Choose Wisely on Healthcare
And the two political parties have wildly different approaches to solving that problem. The Democrats believe that subjecting more of our healthcare system to government control is the answer. Republicans argue that competition, free markets, and private-sector ingenuity can bring about better care at lower cost. Read the full article ...
Learn how PBMs pocket savings intended for patients
How Long Can Pharmacy Benefit Managers Go Unchecked?
Last week, a House subcommittee held a hearing on pharmacy benefit managers and their impact on the prices patients pay for prescription drugs. The hearing speaks to voters’ concerns. Republicans and Democrats alike have identified the cost of prescription drugs as their No. 2 health care concern, according to polling ...
Read about the Trump and Harris health care plans
Trump Has a Plan for Healthcare
Harris, by contrast, has been mum on whether she continues to support a government takeover of the health insurance system as she did during her first run for the presidency. Instead, she has said that she wants to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and extend President Joe Biden’s ruinously expensive scheme ...
Learn about the latest problems with Obamacare
Americans Don’t Want Obamacare’s High Maintenance
At last week’s presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked about her previous support for Medicare For All, a $44 trillion proposal that would outlaw private insurance. She backed away from the questions, saying, “What we need to do is maintain and grow the Affordable Care Act.” Read the full ...
Learn how drug price controls hurt patients, innovation
Senator Sanders’ Price Controls Will Harm Patients
In a patently politicized press release, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) who is Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, claims that the U.S. price of Ozempic is too high. As evidence, he cites generic companies that claim they can sell Ozempic for less than $100 a ...
Drug Companies Are Embracing Direct-To-Consumer Sales. That’s A Win For Patients.
Fortunately, that’s starting to change. In recent months, drug companies Pfizer and Eli Lilly have begun rolling out direct-to-consumer programs that let patients purchase basic prescriptions remotely. This development is a huge win for patients. Not only are direct-to-consumer offerings more convenient. They can also provide a jolt of competition ...
Kamala Harris’ worst plan yet: bringing the NHS to America
Something, of course, must be done. Less than one in four people are satisfied with the NHS and its outdated centralised system of universal coverage, which routinely fails to provide adequate services. Some 7.6 million patients, including individuals suffering from cancer, are waiting to start treatment. About half have waited ...
Read the latest about the problems with Obamacare
Junk Health Insurance? It’s Called Obamacare
The exchanges, in other words, are failing at one of their most fundamental jobs: expanding access to quality health care. Taxpayers cannot afford to divert yet more public money to subsidizing substandard exchange plans, as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has called for. Read the full article at Newsmax
Learn why drug price controls don't work
The Expected Consequences Of Price Controls
The intended consequence of the policy is to reduce overall spending on drugs, but all regulations have unintended consequences, too. While these consequences may be unintended, they need not be unexpected. In the case of the IRA, these unintended impacts now threaten to undermine the entire purpose of the policy. ...
Trump is wrong about IVF
That is certainly true. But socializing coverage of IVF, or mandating that insurance pays for it, draws from the same Democratic playbook that has caused the cost of health coverage to surge. Read the full article at the Washington Examiner
This November, Choose Wisely on Healthcare
And the two political parties have wildly different approaches to solving that problem. The Democrats believe that subjecting more of our healthcare system to government control is the answer. Republicans argue that competition, free markets, and private-sector ingenuity can bring about better care at lower cost. Read the full article ...
