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Golden State May Learn Single-Payer Mania Has Hefty Price
The California legislature will soon consider yet another bid to launch a government takeover of the state’s health insurance system. Known as the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act, AB 2200 seeks to ban private health insurance and enroll all state residents — including those currently covered by Medicare and Medi-Cal, ...
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Blame slow-growth policies for California’s housing and homeless crises
By Steven Greenhut & Wayne Winegarden The roots of California’s housing problems aren’t hard to trace given the reams of house-price and population data going back decades. The Los Angeles Times reported the median price of a California home in 1970 was only 5 percent higher than the national average at $24,300. That ...
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President Biden Is His Own Worst Enemy In The War On Cancer
Cancer is becoming more common. This year, the number of new cancer cases among Americans is projected to exceed 2 million for the first time ever, according to a paper published last month by the American Cancer Society. The disease is also afflicting people earlier in their lives. Cancer diagnosis rates for ...
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Trump vs. Obamacare — More Market Efficiency, Less Government Bureaucracy
Donald Trump is continuing to make his case for an overhaul of the Affordable Care Act. “We’re going to fight for much better health care than Obamacare. Obamacare is a catastrophe,” he said just before his victory in the Iowa Caucuses in January. He’s right to put healthcare reform at ...
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Loss of Medicaid isn’t a crisis. It’s a chance to make coverage better, cheaper
More than 16 million Americans have lost Medicaid coverage in recent months, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Two million Texans have rolled off Medicaid, newly released state data show. That’s good news, despite what the Biden administration would have us believe. For decades, Medicaid has burdened taxpayers ...
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Compared To UK Physicians, US Docs Have It Made
America’s doctors are lobbying for better pay. The American Medical Association and other doctor groups are currently urging Congress to roll back a 3.37 percent cut to Medicare reimbursement rates that took effect at the beginning of the year. This quarrel over pay should disabuse U.S. doctors of any sympathy for ...
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Read about the bill in Congress that would ban the use of "quality-adjusted life years"
Congress needs to cut QALYs
The House of Representatives last week approved a bill that would ban the use of “quality-adjusted life years,” or QALYs, as well as other measures for determining the purported value of a medical intervention, in all federal health programs. Now the Senate will consider the measure. QALYs should have no place in federal decision-making about whether ...
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Read the latest on Medicare's prescription drug price-setting scheme
Can Constitution Save Us from Drug Price Controls?
AstraZeneca made its case against Medicare’s prescription drug price-setting scheme before a federal judge in Delaware last week. It’s one of several drugmakers challenging the program on constitutional grounds, among them Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb. Defenders of the price control plan have portrayed these cases as the machinations of money-grubbing ...
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Reforming PBMs Improves the Drug Market and Thwarts Efforts to Socialize Medicine
By Sally Pipes & Wayne Winegarden There they go again. Free-market advocates are jeopardizing pro-market healthcare reforms based on an inability to recognize how cronyism tars the current industry dynamics. That distinction between companies operating in a free market and companies using cronyism to flourish in a government-dominated market is ...
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Read the latest on Florida's drug importation plan
Is the FDA opening a door for counterfeit drug trade?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the go-ahead last month for Florida to import prescription drugs in bulk from Canada. If all goes according to plan, the state government will be able to dispense certain Canadian-sourced drugs to people who receive care through the state Department of Corrections, the ...
Golden State May Learn Single-Payer Mania Has Hefty Price
The California legislature will soon consider yet another bid to launch a government takeover of the state’s health insurance system. Known as the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act, AB 2200 seeks to ban private health insurance and enroll all state residents — including those currently covered by Medicare and Medi-Cal, ...
Blame slow-growth policies for California’s housing and homeless crises
By Steven Greenhut & Wayne Winegarden The roots of California’s housing problems aren’t hard to trace given the reams of house-price and population data going back decades. The Los Angeles Times reported the median price of a California home in 1970 was only 5 percent higher than the national average at $24,300. That ...
President Biden Is His Own Worst Enemy In The War On Cancer
Cancer is becoming more common. This year, the number of new cancer cases among Americans is projected to exceed 2 million for the first time ever, according to a paper published last month by the American Cancer Society. The disease is also afflicting people earlier in their lives. Cancer diagnosis rates for ...
Trump vs. Obamacare — More Market Efficiency, Less Government Bureaucracy
Donald Trump is continuing to make his case for an overhaul of the Affordable Care Act. “We’re going to fight for much better health care than Obamacare. Obamacare is a catastrophe,” he said just before his victory in the Iowa Caucuses in January. He’s right to put healthcare reform at ...
Loss of Medicaid isn’t a crisis. It’s a chance to make coverage better, cheaper
More than 16 million Americans have lost Medicaid coverage in recent months, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Two million Texans have rolled off Medicaid, newly released state data show. That’s good news, despite what the Biden administration would have us believe. For decades, Medicaid has burdened taxpayers ...
Compared To UK Physicians, US Docs Have It Made
America’s doctors are lobbying for better pay. The American Medical Association and other doctor groups are currently urging Congress to roll back a 3.37 percent cut to Medicare reimbursement rates that took effect at the beginning of the year. This quarrel over pay should disabuse U.S. doctors of any sympathy for ...
Read about the bill in Congress that would ban the use of "quality-adjusted life years"
Congress needs to cut QALYs
The House of Representatives last week approved a bill that would ban the use of “quality-adjusted life years,” or QALYs, as well as other measures for determining the purported value of a medical intervention, in all federal health programs. Now the Senate will consider the measure. QALYs should have no place in federal decision-making about whether ...
Read the latest on Medicare's prescription drug price-setting scheme
Can Constitution Save Us from Drug Price Controls?
AstraZeneca made its case against Medicare’s prescription drug price-setting scheme before a federal judge in Delaware last week. It’s one of several drugmakers challenging the program on constitutional grounds, among them Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb. Defenders of the price control plan have portrayed these cases as the machinations of money-grubbing ...
Reforming PBMs Improves the Drug Market and Thwarts Efforts to Socialize Medicine
By Sally Pipes & Wayne Winegarden There they go again. Free-market advocates are jeopardizing pro-market healthcare reforms based on an inability to recognize how cronyism tars the current industry dynamics. That distinction between companies operating in a free market and companies using cronyism to flourish in a government-dominated market is ...
Read the latest on Florida's drug importation plan
Is the FDA opening a door for counterfeit drug trade?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the go-ahead last month for Florida to import prescription drugs in bulk from Canada. If all goes according to plan, the state government will be able to dispense certain Canadian-sourced drugs to people who receive care through the state Department of Corrections, the ...
