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Medicare should not cover at-home care

Vice President Kamala Harris announced a plan earlier this month to add home healthcare benefits to Medicare. The plan is a fiscal fantasy. Medicare is already in a fiscal crisis, and new benefits will only make things worse. According to the Brookings Institution, covering seniors’ home care for even one year would cost Medicare $40 billion. The program ...
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What Trump’s health care plan could look like

Former President Donald Trump has been jeered for saying he has “concepts of a plan” for repealing and replacing Obamacare. But that’s not quite fair. Trump’s first term in office suggests that he favors market-based reforms that increase patients’ choices. With just under a month until the election, it’s time ...
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Vance’s Critics Wrong: No Need to Fear High-Risk Pools

Following the recent vice-presidential debate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, continues to face attacks on his ideas for covering people with pre-existing conditions. Vance’s critics call his proposal — which would separate out sicker patients into a separate high-risk insurance pool — inhumane and impractical. As Arthur Caplan, the head of medical ethics at NYU ...
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Vance’s Argument on Preexisting Conditions a Sure Winner

When asked how people with pre-existing conditions would fare under a Trump-Vance administration during last week’s vice-presidential debate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, was unequivocal. “Well, of course, we’re going to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.” The question was prompted by Vance’s statement last month that the Republican ticket would consider creating different risk ...
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Women, Children, Disabled Pay The Price For Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion

Obamacare greatly expanded Medicaid eligibility. As a result, about 20 million able-bodied, working-age adults who were previously ineligible are now enrolled in the program. But as a new report from the Paragon Health Institute makes clear, their gains have come at the expense of the pregnant women, children, and people ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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
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Harris commits to worst of Biden healthcare policies

One proposal Harris has explicitly backed would enshrine President Joe Biden’s enhanced Obamacare subsidies, which are slated to expire in 2025. “Republicans want to let those credits expire, increasing premiums,” the Democratic platform asserts. “Democrats will fight to make them permanent.” Read the full article at the Washington Examiner
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Learn more about escalating healthcare costs

Medicare should not cover at-home care

Vice President Kamala Harris announced a plan earlier this month to add home healthcare benefits to Medicare. The plan is a fiscal fantasy. Medicare is already in a fiscal crisis, and new benefits will only make things worse. According to the Brookings Institution, covering seniors’ home care for even one year would cost Medicare $40 billion. The program ...
Commentary

Learn more about health care reform

What Trump’s health care plan could look like

Former President Donald Trump has been jeered for saying he has “concepts of a plan” for repealing and replacing Obamacare. But that’s not quite fair. Trump’s first term in office suggests that he favors market-based reforms that increase patients’ choices. With just under a month until the election, it’s time ...
Commentary

Learn more about healthcare reform

Vance’s Critics Wrong: No Need to Fear High-Risk Pools

Following the recent vice-presidential debate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, continues to face attacks on his ideas for covering people with pre-existing conditions. Vance’s critics call his proposal — which would separate out sicker patients into a separate high-risk insurance pool — inhumane and impractical. As Arthur Caplan, the head of medical ethics at NYU ...
Commentary

Learn how Vance's suggestion would benefit consumers

Vance’s Argument on Preexisting Conditions a Sure Winner

When asked how people with pre-existing conditions would fare under a Trump-Vance administration during last week’s vice-presidential debate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, was unequivocal. “Well, of course, we’re going to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.” The question was prompted by Vance’s statement last month that the Republican ticket would consider creating different risk ...
Commentary

Women, Children, Disabled Pay The Price For Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion

Obamacare greatly expanded Medicaid eligibility. As a result, about 20 million able-bodied, working-age adults who were previously ineligible are now enrolled in the program. But as a new report from the Paragon Health Institute makes clear, their gains have come at the expense of the pregnant women, children, and people ...
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 ...
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

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

Read the latest about VP Harris' healthcare platform

Harris commits to worst of Biden healthcare policies

One proposal Harris has explicitly backed would enshrine President Joe Biden’s enhanced Obamacare subsidies, which are slated to expire in 2025. “Republicans want to let those credits expire, increasing premiums,” the Democratic platform asserts. “Democrats will fight to make them permanent.” Read the full article at the Washington Examiner
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