Health Care Reform
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Read Sally Pipes' latest on health care reform
Repeal laws that stifle health care competition
Patients in several states could soon find it easier to access life-saving medical care, if state legislators and executive officials eliminate so-called certificate-of-need restrictions for new acute-care hospitals in rural areas. Certificate-of-need laws require health care providers to get a state government’s sign-off before building new facilities, expanding existing ones, ...
Commentary
Read about Biden's latest policy proposal
Time for Hospitals to Come Clean About Pricing
The Biden administration is cracking down on hospitals that keep their prices secret. Under a policy announced last week, failing to abide by Trump-era hospital price transparency rules will no longer prompt a warning letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Instead, hospitals will have 45 days to ...
Commentary
Don’t Expect Life Expectancy To Explain American Health Care
Misinformation is killing Americans. At least, that’s what one of America’s top public health officials says. Speaking to CNBC in April, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf said misinformation is part of the reason Americans have lower life expectancies than people in other wealthy nations. The FDA chief is hardly ...
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Read this recent healthcare op-ed on irresponsible Colorado legislation
Banning Healthcare Facility Fees Is Bad News For Colorado
Colorado lawmakers are considering HB 23-1215, a measure that would ban certain types of “facility fees.” These are charges patients receive from a hospital or clinic in addition to their share of the cost of a procedure, sometimes without advance notice. Nobody likes being surprised by a medical bill. But scrapping ...
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Government health care hurts minority communities
Racial health gap is about government, not race
Black Americans continue to lag behind their peers of other races on numerous measures of health, from life expectancy to prevalence of chronic disease. Progressives take these data points as proof of systemic racism. The only antidote is more government: higher subsidies for insurance through Obamacare’s exchanges, Medicaid expansion, even ...
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Free-Market Solutions to Improving American Health Care
Editor’s note: Today’s blog is part three of a three part series featuring PRI’s CEO & President Sally Pipes’ health care speech delivered at Reason Weekend on March 18th. As you’ve heard today, there’s no shortage of evidence that neither federal entitlement programs nor government-run healthcare systems can provide patients ...
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QALYs block life-saving drugs
Don’t Let Progressives Assign A Dollar Value To Human Life
How do you measure a year? Your desk calendar might suggest months or days. The musical “Rent” famously offered 525,600 minutes and a number of other more creative metrics. Ask a progressive health policy expert, though, and they may give you the most shocking option of all. For years, progressives ...
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Flaws with Our Current Healthcare System
Editor’s note: Today’s blog is part one of a three part series featuring PRI’s CEO & President Sally Pipes’ health care speech delivered at Reason Weekend on March 18th. Winston Churchill once said that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been ...
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Don’t Fall for the Fear, GOP Seeks Sustainable Medicaid
The Biden administration is fear-mongering about what the “extreme MAGA Republican House Freedom Caucus” has in store for the country. Last week, the White House put out a statement declaring the Freedom Caucus’s proposal to impose work requirements in Medicaid a “Five-Alarm Fire!” But the real emergency is Medicaid’s finances. Spending on the ...
Commentary
The Future Of Health Care Is Here, If You Know Where To Look
Nearly half of Americans say the healthcare system is failing them. Six in ten report having had a bad healthcare experience. About half of patients say they have trouble affording health care—even those who are insured. All told, Americans’ satisfaction with their healthcare system hit a new low in 2022. The default response to statistics like these ...
Read Sally Pipes' latest on health care reform
Repeal laws that stifle health care competition
Patients in several states could soon find it easier to access life-saving medical care, if state legislators and executive officials eliminate so-called certificate-of-need restrictions for new acute-care hospitals in rural areas. Certificate-of-need laws require health care providers to get a state government’s sign-off before building new facilities, expanding existing ones, ...
Read about Biden's latest policy proposal
Time for Hospitals to Come Clean About Pricing
The Biden administration is cracking down on hospitals that keep their prices secret. Under a policy announced last week, failing to abide by Trump-era hospital price transparency rules will no longer prompt a warning letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Instead, hospitals will have 45 days to ...
Don’t Expect Life Expectancy To Explain American Health Care
Misinformation is killing Americans. At least, that’s what one of America’s top public health officials says. Speaking to CNBC in April, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf said misinformation is part of the reason Americans have lower life expectancies than people in other wealthy nations. The FDA chief is hardly ...
Read this recent healthcare op-ed on irresponsible Colorado legislation
Banning Healthcare Facility Fees Is Bad News For Colorado
Colorado lawmakers are considering HB 23-1215, a measure that would ban certain types of “facility fees.” These are charges patients receive from a hospital or clinic in addition to their share of the cost of a procedure, sometimes without advance notice. Nobody likes being surprised by a medical bill. But scrapping ...
Government health care hurts minority communities
Racial health gap is about government, not race
Black Americans continue to lag behind their peers of other races on numerous measures of health, from life expectancy to prevalence of chronic disease. Progressives take these data points as proof of systemic racism. The only antidote is more government: higher subsidies for insurance through Obamacare’s exchanges, Medicaid expansion, even ...
Free-Market Solutions to Improving American Health Care
Editor’s note: Today’s blog is part three of a three part series featuring PRI’s CEO & President Sally Pipes’ health care speech delivered at Reason Weekend on March 18th. As you’ve heard today, there’s no shortage of evidence that neither federal entitlement programs nor government-run healthcare systems can provide patients ...
QALYs block life-saving drugs
Don’t Let Progressives Assign A Dollar Value To Human Life
How do you measure a year? Your desk calendar might suggest months or days. The musical “Rent” famously offered 525,600 minutes and a number of other more creative metrics. Ask a progressive health policy expert, though, and they may give you the most shocking option of all. For years, progressives ...
Flaws with Our Current Healthcare System
Editor’s note: Today’s blog is part one of a three part series featuring PRI’s CEO & President Sally Pipes’ health care speech delivered at Reason Weekend on March 18th. Winston Churchill once said that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been ...
Don’t Fall for the Fear, GOP Seeks Sustainable Medicaid
The Biden administration is fear-mongering about what the “extreme MAGA Republican House Freedom Caucus” has in store for the country. Last week, the White House put out a statement declaring the Freedom Caucus’s proposal to impose work requirements in Medicaid a “Five-Alarm Fire!” But the real emergency is Medicaid’s finances. Spending on the ...
The Future Of Health Care Is Here, If You Know Where To Look
Nearly half of Americans say the healthcare system is failing them. Six in ten report having had a bad healthcare experience. About half of patients say they have trouble affording health care—even those who are insured. All told, Americans’ satisfaction with their healthcare system hit a new low in 2022. The default response to statistics like these ...
