New Study: Medicare’s Price Controls Are Fueling America’s Growing Doctor Shortage
The Pacific Research Institute’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation today released a new issue brief warning that continued federal underpayment of doctors is fueling a looming healthcare crisis by accelerating the nation’s physician shortage and undermining access to care. Written by PRI senior fellow in business and economics and CMEI director Dr. Wayne Winegarden, the brief (titled “It’s Time for Medicare to Stop Shortchanging Physicians”) finds that Medicare reimbursement rates are well below market ...
Drop ‘Bigger Subsidies’ Narrative for Better Insurance Options
The federal government is covering a smaller share of Obamacare enrollees’ premiums this year. That has Democrats warning of a surge in the number of uninsured, as people struggle to shoulder more of the cost themselves. But recent reporting on some of those losing their enhanced premium subsidies reveals that the federal dollars have merely masked the dysfunction Obamacare foisted on the insurance market. Read the op-ed here.
States should think twice before embracing single-payer
Progressives are dreaming once again of a government takeover of the healthcare system. Locked out of power in Washington, they’re taking their fight for single-payer to blue states. This week, four New Yorkers took to the pages of the journal Health Affairs to make their case for how the Empire State can deliver universal coverage on its own. Absent from their analysis — and from any pitch for single-payer, for that matter — is the ...
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