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Decrease in Independent Physicians Leads to Higher Costs and Less Competition
Earlier this year, the American Medical Association (AMA) reported that in 2020, physician-owned medical practices are no longer in the majority. For the first time in American health care, over half of all U.S. physicians work for a hospital or health system. According to another study by Avalere, the data ...
Commentary
Build Back Better’s Drug Reforms Make American Health Care Worse
Last week, President Joe Biden emphasized the importance of the drug pricing proposals in the Democrats’ roughly $2 trillion Build Back Better spending package. “I think it’s safe to say that all of us, all of us, whatever our age, wherever we live, we can agree that prescription drugs are outrageously expensive ...
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COVID Vaccine Benevolence: An opportunity that US companies and the federal government should seize
Through the brilliance of scientists, the ingenuity of the life sciences industry, and the mobilization of taxpayer dollars, COVID-19 vaccines have been developed and distributed in record time. By now, all American adults who want to be vaccinated have likely received at least two doses, and many three. Supply is ...
Commentary
Comprehensive Regulatory Reform From The Bottom Up: The Case Of 340B
Using the ruse of “price negotiation”, the proponents of the Build Back Better legislation are pushing an ill-fated drug price control plan. Patients will bear exceptionally large costs should their idea of government-directed prices become law. These costs will include lower health outcomes due to reduced access to innovative drugs. ...
Commentary
U.S. gains in war on cancer while other nations struggle
In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, there’s some good news on the health care front. Cancer mortality rates are declining in the United States, according to a recent report from the National Cancer Institute. Sadly, patients in other countries may not be so lucky. Though the United States has ...
Commentary
The FDA is standing in the way of at-home COVID-19 tests
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden unveiled a plan to make at-home COVID-19 tests free for people with private insurance. They’ll have to pay for the tests first, then submit receipts to their insurer to get reimbursed. Only the government could come up with a plan so unnecessarily complicated. The Biden administration ...
Commentary
Latest Medicaid Data Show A Deeply Broken Program
A bank that misplaced over one-fifth of its deposits would be shut down almost immediately. So would a hospital that bungled one in five operations, or a private health insurer that mishandled one-fifth of its claims. But apparently, the bar is a lot lower for government programs. The Biden administration ...
Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller Talks Omnicron on the John Batchelor Show
Dr. Henry Miller and John Batchelor breakdown the latest developments of Omnicron, a new variant of the coronavirus that was recently detected in South Africa. Miller talks about the latest information regarding infections, vaccine efficacy, and how countries are responding to the news.
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Nurse practitioners can ease the strain on the California doctor shortage
Several months ago, I received a call from my OB-GYN. They cancelled my upcoming appointment yet again, offering a new appointment in two weeks. It was their third cancellation in a row, and I had already not been seen in over a month. Sensing my frustration, the secretary explained: due ...
Commentary
The True Cost of ‘Medicare for All’
Several hospitals in New Mexico activated crisis standards of care last month in response to a surge in COVID-19 patients. Earlier this fall, Alaska and Idaho did the same. In some places, providers were forced to begin rationing treatment based on the likelihood of survival. It was a shocking spectacle ...
Decrease in Independent Physicians Leads to Higher Costs and Less Competition
Earlier this year, the American Medical Association (AMA) reported that in 2020, physician-owned medical practices are no longer in the majority. For the first time in American health care, over half of all U.S. physicians work for a hospital or health system. According to another study by Avalere, the data ...
Build Back Better’s Drug Reforms Make American Health Care Worse
Last week, President Joe Biden emphasized the importance of the drug pricing proposals in the Democrats’ roughly $2 trillion Build Back Better spending package. “I think it’s safe to say that all of us, all of us, whatever our age, wherever we live, we can agree that prescription drugs are outrageously expensive ...
COVID Vaccine Benevolence: An opportunity that US companies and the federal government should seize
Through the brilliance of scientists, the ingenuity of the life sciences industry, and the mobilization of taxpayer dollars, COVID-19 vaccines have been developed and distributed in record time. By now, all American adults who want to be vaccinated have likely received at least two doses, and many three. Supply is ...
Comprehensive Regulatory Reform From The Bottom Up: The Case Of 340B
Using the ruse of “price negotiation”, the proponents of the Build Back Better legislation are pushing an ill-fated drug price control plan. Patients will bear exceptionally large costs should their idea of government-directed prices become law. These costs will include lower health outcomes due to reduced access to innovative drugs. ...
U.S. gains in war on cancer while other nations struggle
In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, there’s some good news on the health care front. Cancer mortality rates are declining in the United States, according to a recent report from the National Cancer Institute. Sadly, patients in other countries may not be so lucky. Though the United States has ...
The FDA is standing in the way of at-home COVID-19 tests
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden unveiled a plan to make at-home COVID-19 tests free for people with private insurance. They’ll have to pay for the tests first, then submit receipts to their insurer to get reimbursed. Only the government could come up with a plan so unnecessarily complicated. The Biden administration ...
Latest Medicaid Data Show A Deeply Broken Program
A bank that misplaced over one-fifth of its deposits would be shut down almost immediately. So would a hospital that bungled one in five operations, or a private health insurer that mishandled one-fifth of its claims. But apparently, the bar is a lot lower for government programs. The Biden administration ...
Dr. Henry Miller Talks Omnicron on the John Batchelor Show
Dr. Henry Miller and John Batchelor breakdown the latest developments of Omnicron, a new variant of the coronavirus that was recently detected in South Africa. Miller talks about the latest information regarding infections, vaccine efficacy, and how countries are responding to the news.
Nurse practitioners can ease the strain on the California doctor shortage
Several months ago, I received a call from my OB-GYN. They cancelled my upcoming appointment yet again, offering a new appointment in two weeks. It was their third cancellation in a row, and I had already not been seen in over a month. Sensing my frustration, the secretary explained: due ...
The True Cost of ‘Medicare for All’
Several hospitals in New Mexico activated crisis standards of care last month in response to a surge in COVID-19 patients. Earlier this fall, Alaska and Idaho did the same. In some places, providers were forced to begin rationing treatment based on the likelihood of survival. It was a shocking spectacle ...
