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Read about healthcare on the presidential campaign trail
Biden And Harris Are Wrong About Healthcare “Rights”
Speaking to supporters in North Carolina late last month, Vice President Kamala Harris said, “We here agree that access to healthcare should be a right and not just a privilege of those who can afford it.” President Biden picked up the thread when he joined Harris on stage, saying he envisioned “a future ...
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Read the latest on drug pricing
Cost-Based Pricing For Innovative Medicines Is Unviable And Harmful
Barber et al. just published a fundamentally flawed study on diabetes medicines in JAMA Network Open (JNO). This study wrongly suggests that cost-based pricing accurately values innovative on-patent medicines, distracts from serious policymaking, and fuels political grandstanding by politicians such as Senator Bernie Sanders. Cost-based pricing could be an economically viable pricing ...
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Read about the gap in black and white outcomes in healthcare
Government programs are WIDENING black-white health disparities
Thanks to better prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment, cancer mortality in the United States has fallen 33% since 1991, per data the American Cancer Society published this year. But that progress has not been equally distributed. The cancer mortality rate for black people remains higher than for white people. Between 2000 and ...
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Read the latest on Biden's plans for affordable healthcare
Why Does ‘Unifier’ Biden Want to End Affordable Healthcare?
The Biden administration is about to effectively outlaw some of the most affordable health plans on the market and cast scores of people into the ranks of the uninsured. At issue is a rule the administration finalized last month. The rule will bar short-term health plans from lasting any more than three ...
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Obamacare is the real ‘junk’ insurance
Vice President Kamala Harris extolled the president in a speech last month for “fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare” and lambasted right-wing “extremists” for “trying to take away healthcare coverage.” So it’s ironic that one of the Biden administration’s latest moves, a rule cutting the maximum duration of a short-term health plan from ...
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Read the latest about Medicaid overreach
States use Medicaid as credit card without limit
Medicaid was created in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” to provide health coverage to low-income and disabled Americans. The incremental expansion of the program is bleeding taxpayers and straining its ability to fulfill its historical purpose. Its scope needs to be scaled back. Read the full ...
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Read the latest on GOP's plan for healthcare reform
House GOP Embraces Markets in New Health Reform Plan
The House Republican Study Committee’s new budget proposal, which was released last month, offers fresh proof that the GOP hasn’t given up on sensible health reform. The proposal would balance the budget in just seven years, in part by undoing some of the most destructive elements of Obamacare. It also gives Americans ...
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Read the latest on the failures of Obamacare
President Biden Touts Obamacare As A Success. Many Patients Disagree.
President Biden is trying to make this November’s election a referendum on healthcare policy. Last month, his campaign initiated a national organizing blitz with former President Obama to galvanize support for the Affordable Care Act — and by extension, the incumbent president, who has continued to expand his Democratic predecessor’s signature program. More than 21 ...
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Read the latest on US drug pricing
Global Collaboration on Reference Models Will Further Depersonalize Healthcare
By Sally Pipes & Wayne Winegarden Question: What’s worse than government bureaucrats in Washington declaring the value of your medicine? Answer: Bureaucrats from Boston, London, Ottawa and Diemen establishing that value. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. It is the direction that the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review is ...
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Read about President Biden's new budget proposal on healthcare
Biden’s Healthcare Budget Enriches Insurers, Ignores Patients
Anyone clamoring for commonsense healthcare reform won’t find much to cheer about in President Joe Biden’s new budget proposal. The insurance industry, however, should be very pleased. Among other things, the budget makes Biden’s enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies permanent and calls for a new Medicaid-like program for people in states that haven’t ...
Read about healthcare on the presidential campaign trail
Biden And Harris Are Wrong About Healthcare “Rights”
Speaking to supporters in North Carolina late last month, Vice President Kamala Harris said, “We here agree that access to healthcare should be a right and not just a privilege of those who can afford it.” President Biden picked up the thread when he joined Harris on stage, saying he envisioned “a future ...
Read the latest on drug pricing
Cost-Based Pricing For Innovative Medicines Is Unviable And Harmful
Barber et al. just published a fundamentally flawed study on diabetes medicines in JAMA Network Open (JNO). This study wrongly suggests that cost-based pricing accurately values innovative on-patent medicines, distracts from serious policymaking, and fuels political grandstanding by politicians such as Senator Bernie Sanders. Cost-based pricing could be an economically viable pricing ...
Read about the gap in black and white outcomes in healthcare
Government programs are WIDENING black-white health disparities
Thanks to better prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment, cancer mortality in the United States has fallen 33% since 1991, per data the American Cancer Society published this year. But that progress has not been equally distributed. The cancer mortality rate for black people remains higher than for white people. Between 2000 and ...
Read the latest on Biden's plans for affordable healthcare
Why Does ‘Unifier’ Biden Want to End Affordable Healthcare?
The Biden administration is about to effectively outlaw some of the most affordable health plans on the market and cast scores of people into the ranks of the uninsured. At issue is a rule the administration finalized last month. The rule will bar short-term health plans from lasting any more than three ...
Obamacare is the real ‘junk’ insurance
Vice President Kamala Harris extolled the president in a speech last month for “fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare” and lambasted right-wing “extremists” for “trying to take away healthcare coverage.” So it’s ironic that one of the Biden administration’s latest moves, a rule cutting the maximum duration of a short-term health plan from ...
Read the latest about Medicaid overreach
States use Medicaid as credit card without limit
Medicaid was created in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” to provide health coverage to low-income and disabled Americans. The incremental expansion of the program is bleeding taxpayers and straining its ability to fulfill its historical purpose. Its scope needs to be scaled back. Read the full ...
Read the latest on GOP's plan for healthcare reform
House GOP Embraces Markets in New Health Reform Plan
The House Republican Study Committee’s new budget proposal, which was released last month, offers fresh proof that the GOP hasn’t given up on sensible health reform. The proposal would balance the budget in just seven years, in part by undoing some of the most destructive elements of Obamacare. It also gives Americans ...
Read the latest on the failures of Obamacare
President Biden Touts Obamacare As A Success. Many Patients Disagree.
President Biden is trying to make this November’s election a referendum on healthcare policy. Last month, his campaign initiated a national organizing blitz with former President Obama to galvanize support for the Affordable Care Act — and by extension, the incumbent president, who has continued to expand his Democratic predecessor’s signature program. More than 21 ...
Read the latest on US drug pricing
Global Collaboration on Reference Models Will Further Depersonalize Healthcare
By Sally Pipes & Wayne Winegarden Question: What’s worse than government bureaucrats in Washington declaring the value of your medicine? Answer: Bureaucrats from Boston, London, Ottawa and Diemen establishing that value. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. It is the direction that the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review is ...
Read about President Biden's new budget proposal on healthcare
Biden’s Healthcare Budget Enriches Insurers, Ignores Patients
Anyone clamoring for commonsense healthcare reform won’t find much to cheer about in President Joe Biden’s new budget proposal. The insurance industry, however, should be very pleased. Among other things, the budget makes Biden’s enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies permanent and calls for a new Medicaid-like program for people in states that haven’t ...
