Commentary
Commentary
Open, Competitive Market Will Make Trump’s Health Plan Great
President Trump’s recently released Great Healthcare Plan offers several welcome reforms. It endeavors to put patients first by fostering greater price transparency and taking steps to lower health insurance premiums. Its approach to prescription drug policy is a bit more mixed. Read the op-ed here.
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CMS Officials Are Undermining Trump’s Push For Affordable Drugs
Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just undermined President Trump’s efforts to make prescription drugs more affordable. Earlier this week, CMS announced the next 15 medicines that will face price caps under Medicare’s Drug Price “Negotiation” Program, a core component of the Inflation Reduction Act signed into ...
Commentary
The ‘Medicare-For-All’ Delusion
As Congress looks for ways to bring down the cost of insurance, a growing number of Democrats are pushing to get rid of insurance altogether and make the federal government the sole funder of health care in this country. Several progressive Senate candidates have put Medicare for All at the ...
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Proposed patent tax offers a dangerous ‘solution’ to a non-existent problem
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick believes taxpayers are getting short-changed by America’s patent system. Last year, he argued that the federal government should be entitled to 50% of the revenue universities earn from licensing the patented discoveries they’ve made with help from federally funded research grants. Lutnick is deeply mistaken. ...
Business & Economics
Competition Begets Better Banking Data Than Regulation
As it works to determine how to safeguard the sharing of and access to consumer financial data, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) faces a clear choice. It can allow market-based frameworks developed by the private sector to continue evolving, stepping in only where genuine gaps or abuses emerge. Or ...
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Newsom budget expands green subsidies taxpayers can’t afford
California is staring at a $3 billion budget deficit, but Gov. Gavin Newsom still wants to spend $200 million on electric vehicle rebates. It’s both a foolish gesture and a graphic example of why Sacramento can’t get spending under control. The funds would replace the $7,500 federal EV tax credits ...
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No Accountability as Insurers Profit From Public Programs
Executives from the nation’s largest health insurers are set to testify before Congress soon in a hearing on healthcare affordability. It’s about time. From Medicare Advantage to Obamacare exchanges to prescription drug benefits, insurers have been extracting ever-greater amounts of public funds while passing costs and risk on to patients ...
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Red tape is strangling rural health care. It’s time to cut it
Rural America is running out of doctors. According to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund, 43 million Americans now live in rural communities facing a shortage of primary care providers. This shortage isn’t new. It’s been reality for rural America for decades. And it helps explain why patients there ...
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Alexis Wilkins Interview Of Sally Pipes
PRI’s Sally Pipes discusses health care policy and the threat of single payer with podcast host Alexis Wilkins. Listen to the entire podcast here.
Commentary
Enhanced Obamacare subsidies are gone. They deserve to stay that way
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) took to the chamber’s floor last week to voice his opposition to legislation that would extend the pandemic-era enhanced premium subsidies for Obamacare plans for three years. Unfortunately, his wise counsel fell on deaf ears, as all Democrats and 17 Republicans ...
Open, Competitive Market Will Make Trump’s Health Plan Great
President Trump’s recently released Great Healthcare Plan offers several welcome reforms. It endeavors to put patients first by fostering greater price transparency and taking steps to lower health insurance premiums. Its approach to prescription drug policy is a bit more mixed. Read the op-ed here.
CMS Officials Are Undermining Trump’s Push For Affordable Drugs
Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just undermined President Trump’s efforts to make prescription drugs more affordable. Earlier this week, CMS announced the next 15 medicines that will face price caps under Medicare’s Drug Price “Negotiation” Program, a core component of the Inflation Reduction Act signed into ...
The ‘Medicare-For-All’ Delusion
As Congress looks for ways to bring down the cost of insurance, a growing number of Democrats are pushing to get rid of insurance altogether and make the federal government the sole funder of health care in this country. Several progressive Senate candidates have put Medicare for All at the ...
Proposed patent tax offers a dangerous ‘solution’ to a non-existent problem
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick believes taxpayers are getting short-changed by America’s patent system. Last year, he argued that the federal government should be entitled to 50% of the revenue universities earn from licensing the patented discoveries they’ve made with help from federally funded research grants. Lutnick is deeply mistaken. ...
Competition Begets Better Banking Data Than Regulation
As it works to determine how to safeguard the sharing of and access to consumer financial data, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) faces a clear choice. It can allow market-based frameworks developed by the private sector to continue evolving, stepping in only where genuine gaps or abuses emerge. Or ...
Newsom budget expands green subsidies taxpayers can’t afford
California is staring at a $3 billion budget deficit, but Gov. Gavin Newsom still wants to spend $200 million on electric vehicle rebates. It’s both a foolish gesture and a graphic example of why Sacramento can’t get spending under control. The funds would replace the $7,500 federal EV tax credits ...
No Accountability as Insurers Profit From Public Programs
Executives from the nation’s largest health insurers are set to testify before Congress soon in a hearing on healthcare affordability. It’s about time. From Medicare Advantage to Obamacare exchanges to prescription drug benefits, insurers have been extracting ever-greater amounts of public funds while passing costs and risk on to patients ...
Red tape is strangling rural health care. It’s time to cut it
Rural America is running out of doctors. According to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund, 43 million Americans now live in rural communities facing a shortage of primary care providers. This shortage isn’t new. It’s been reality for rural America for decades. And it helps explain why patients there ...
Alexis Wilkins Interview Of Sally Pipes
PRI’s Sally Pipes discusses health care policy and the threat of single payer with podcast host Alexis Wilkins. Listen to the entire podcast here.
Enhanced Obamacare subsidies are gone. They deserve to stay that way
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) took to the chamber’s floor last week to voice his opposition to legislation that would extend the pandemic-era enhanced premium subsidies for Obamacare plans for three years. Unfortunately, his wise counsel fell on deaf ears, as all Democrats and 17 Republicans ...
