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Now Trump Has Chance to Finish His Work on Healthcare

When he takes office early next year, President-elect Donald Trump will have a rare opportunity to remake America’s healthcare system for the better. To do so, he’ll need to follow through on some of the best policy ideas from his first term while taking additional steps to bring more choice, ...
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Five ways Trump can improve healthcare

President-elect Donald Trump famously stated he has “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform. Now, those concepts may soon become reality. Here are five ways Trump and a Republican Congress can reduce health costs and expand access to affordable healthcare. Read the entire op-ed here.
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California needs more than medical schools to solve doctor shortage

California doesn’t have enough doctors. This year, the state met just 54% of its primary care needs. It would take 881 more physicians to eliminate all the state’s designated primary care shortage areas, where more than 5.8 million Californians currently reside. California’s leaders are trying to conjure up more physicians. ...
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How Harris and Trump compare on healthcare

People head to the polls on Tuesday to select the next occupant of the White House. Among the first big decisions the winner will have to make is whether to extend generous subsidies for health insurance purchased through the exchanges. Those subsidies are set to expire at the end of ...
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A Harris administration would expand Obamacare and Biden’s healthcare agenda

The Harris-Walz campaign summarizes its healthcare platform as “a new way forward.” But in reality, it’s a continuation and expansion of the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous healthcare agenda. Some parts are literally copied-and-pasted from the now dead Biden campaign’s website. Other parts reveal that Harris’s ambitions are even more aggressively left ...
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The Obamacare Proponents Who Cried Wolf

Democrats just unveiled legislation that would make permanent the generous pandemic-era subsidies for health insurance sold through Obamacare’s exchanges. Illinois representative Lauren Underwood (D.), the bill’s lead sponsor in the House of Representatives, said that extending the subsidies beyond their scheduled expiration at the end of next year would mean ...
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Competition Is The Cure For Rising Health Insurance Premiums

The presidential election is just a week away. And the rising prices of many products and services are on voters’ minds. Just over 40% of Americans say inflation is their biggest concern heading into November, according to a recent survey. In few markets are rising prices more apparent than in ...
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Trump vs. Harris on Health Care: Experts Explain Each Side

“He and his colleagues believe that patients are not in control of the health care system and that we suffer from an opaque and complex pricing structure that harms patients. “Winegarden’s free market approach means he advocates for doing away with the Obamacare subsidies that Congress must consider, as they ...
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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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Now Trump Has Chance to Finish His Work on Healthcare

When he takes office early next year, President-elect Donald Trump will have a rare opportunity to remake America’s healthcare system for the better. To do so, he’ll need to follow through on some of the best policy ideas from his first term while taking additional steps to bring more choice, ...
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Learn more about healthcare reform

Five ways Trump can improve healthcare

President-elect Donald Trump famously stated he has “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform. Now, those concepts may soon become reality. Here are five ways Trump and a Republican Congress can reduce health costs and expand access to affordable healthcare. Read the entire op-ed here.
Commentary

Learn more about California's doctor shortage

California needs more than medical schools to solve doctor shortage

California doesn’t have enough doctors. This year, the state met just 54% of its primary care needs. It would take 881 more physicians to eliminate all the state’s designated primary care shortage areas, where more than 5.8 million Californians currently reside. California’s leaders are trying to conjure up more physicians. ...
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Learn more about how Harris & Trump differ on health care

How Harris and Trump compare on healthcare

People head to the polls on Tuesday to select the next occupant of the White House. Among the first big decisions the winner will have to make is whether to extend generous subsidies for health insurance purchased through the exchanges. Those subsidies are set to expire at the end of ...
Commentary

Learn more about Obamacare's failures

A Harris administration would expand Obamacare and Biden’s healthcare agenda

The Harris-Walz campaign summarizes its healthcare platform as “a new way forward.” But in reality, it’s a continuation and expansion of the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous healthcare agenda. Some parts are literally copied-and-pasted from the now dead Biden campaign’s website. Other parts reveal that Harris’s ambitions are even more aggressively left ...
Commentary

Learn more about Obamacare's failures

The Obamacare Proponents Who Cried Wolf

Democrats just unveiled legislation that would make permanent the generous pandemic-era subsidies for health insurance sold through Obamacare’s exchanges. Illinois representative Lauren Underwood (D.), the bill’s lead sponsor in the House of Representatives, said that extending the subsidies beyond their scheduled expiration at the end of next year would mean ...
Commentary

Learn more about how competition can lower premiums

Competition Is The Cure For Rising Health Insurance Premiums

The presidential election is just a week away. And the rising prices of many products and services are on voters’ minds. Just over 40% of Americans say inflation is their biggest concern heading into November, according to a recent survey. In few markets are rising prices more apparent than in ...
Commentary

Learn more about how government intervention is harming the healthcare market

Trump vs. Harris on Health Care: Experts Explain Each Side

“He and his colleagues believe that patients are not in control of the health care system and that we suffer from an opaque and complex pricing structure that harms patients. “Winegarden’s free market approach means he advocates for doing away with the Obamacare subsidies that Congress must consider, as they ...
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 ...
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