Health Care
Commentary
Biden must not kill off short-term health plans
Democratic lawmakers are looking to limit patient choice in the health insurance market. Forty of them just sent a letter to the Biden administration urging regulators to undo a Trump-era rule that expanded access to short-term health plans. President Joe Biden is sympathetic to their pleas. He called short-term plans “junk” during ...
Business & Economics
Wayne Winegarden – Coverage Denied
Our guest this week is Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow and director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation. Wayne has written a series of papers titled Coverage Denied that analyzes and proposes reforms to fix the problems in the current health insurance system which have threatened patient health ...
Commentary
Quality Adjust Life Years in Healthcare Disguise Bigotry
What’s the value of a human life? It’s a most provocative question. In socialized healthcare systems globally, that question is at the center of every decision public officials make: how much money to spend on care, whether to approve an innovative new drug or medical device for use, who gets ...
Featured
NEW BRIEF: Broken System Imposes Higher Out-of-Pocket Costs on Patients, Puts Interests of Government and Insurers First
America’s broken third-party healthcare payment system prioritizes government and insurance companies as the largest payers, leaving patients with higher out-of-pocket costs, greater exposure to healthcare financial risk, and reduced access to care – finds the latest paper in the Coverage Denied series released today by the Center for Medical Economics ...
Commentary
Time to Rollback Healthcare Scope of Practice Laws
Last week, both New York and Kansas granted nurse practitioners the freedom to practice independently, without the supervision of a physician. The Empire State and the Sunflower State are now the 25th and 26th states to roll back “scope-of-practice” restrictions on NPs. This trend is worth celebrating. The shortage of primary care doctors in the United ...
Commentary
Medicaid Expansion Would Only Expand Waste And Poor Care
Expanding Medicaid is popular, according to new survey data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Two-thirds of Americans living in the 12 states that have not expanded the program as prescribed by Obamacare want their leaders to change course and boost enrollment. Perhaps they’ll change their minds after reviewing the latest data on ...
Commentary
Our public health agencies aren’t alright
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just recommended that seniors get a second COVID-19 booster shot. But there are plenty of people over the age of 65 — one-third, according to the latest data — who have not yet gotten their first booster. Perhaps that’s because it took until ...
Agriculture
Biden & Co. could ‘march in’ and kneecap America’s economy
The Biden administration may soon cripple America’s economy — inadvertently, of course. Officials are reportedly giving serious consideration to a “march-in” petition, nominally filed by a handful of cancer patients but promoted by Knowledge Ecology International, the activist group founded by Ralph Nader. The petition urges the administration to relicense ...
Commentary
Bernie Sanders’s Healthcare Goals Are Deadly For Patients
Next month, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will be back grandstanding at yet another hearing on “Medicare For All.” He’s promised to introduce a bill establishing a single-payer healthcare system “soon.” It would be the third time he’s done so since 2017. Sanders’s vision of a government takeover of the country’s ...
Commentary
Coerced pricing is price controls by another means
Sustainably addressing the problems of rising prices and declining quality requires reforms that empower patients and doctors, improve price transparency, and eliminate the perverse incentives of our current health insurance system that drive up costs and limit care. Instead of addressing the health care system’s core deficiencies, policymakers push for ...
Biden must not kill off short-term health plans
Democratic lawmakers are looking to limit patient choice in the health insurance market. Forty of them just sent a letter to the Biden administration urging regulators to undo a Trump-era rule that expanded access to short-term health plans. President Joe Biden is sympathetic to their pleas. He called short-term plans “junk” during ...
Wayne Winegarden – Coverage Denied
Our guest this week is Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow and director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation. Wayne has written a series of papers titled Coverage Denied that analyzes and proposes reforms to fix the problems in the current health insurance system which have threatened patient health ...
Quality Adjust Life Years in Healthcare Disguise Bigotry
What’s the value of a human life? It’s a most provocative question. In socialized healthcare systems globally, that question is at the center of every decision public officials make: how much money to spend on care, whether to approve an innovative new drug or medical device for use, who gets ...
NEW BRIEF: Broken System Imposes Higher Out-of-Pocket Costs on Patients, Puts Interests of Government and Insurers First
America’s broken third-party healthcare payment system prioritizes government and insurance companies as the largest payers, leaving patients with higher out-of-pocket costs, greater exposure to healthcare financial risk, and reduced access to care – finds the latest paper in the Coverage Denied series released today by the Center for Medical Economics ...
Time to Rollback Healthcare Scope of Practice Laws
Last week, both New York and Kansas granted nurse practitioners the freedom to practice independently, without the supervision of a physician. The Empire State and the Sunflower State are now the 25th and 26th states to roll back “scope-of-practice” restrictions on NPs. This trend is worth celebrating. The shortage of primary care doctors in the United ...
Medicaid Expansion Would Only Expand Waste And Poor Care
Expanding Medicaid is popular, according to new survey data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Two-thirds of Americans living in the 12 states that have not expanded the program as prescribed by Obamacare want their leaders to change course and boost enrollment. Perhaps they’ll change their minds after reviewing the latest data on ...
Our public health agencies aren’t alright
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just recommended that seniors get a second COVID-19 booster shot. But there are plenty of people over the age of 65 — one-third, according to the latest data — who have not yet gotten their first booster. Perhaps that’s because it took until ...
Biden & Co. could ‘march in’ and kneecap America’s economy
The Biden administration may soon cripple America’s economy — inadvertently, of course. Officials are reportedly giving serious consideration to a “march-in” petition, nominally filed by a handful of cancer patients but promoted by Knowledge Ecology International, the activist group founded by Ralph Nader. The petition urges the administration to relicense ...
Bernie Sanders’s Healthcare Goals Are Deadly For Patients
Next month, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will be back grandstanding at yet another hearing on “Medicare For All.” He’s promised to introduce a bill establishing a single-payer healthcare system “soon.” It would be the third time he’s done so since 2017. Sanders’s vision of a government takeover of the country’s ...
Coerced pricing is price controls by another means
Sustainably addressing the problems of rising prices and declining quality requires reforms that empower patients and doctors, improve price transparency, and eliminate the perverse incentives of our current health insurance system that drive up costs and limit care. Instead of addressing the health care system’s core deficiencies, policymakers push for ...
