Health Care Reform
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Learn more about how price controls are driving physician shortages
Price Controls Are Harming Doctors
Whether its pharmaceuticals or health insurance, Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have only one healthcare policy – impose price controls. The untenable financial position of many doctors and private doctor practices due to tightening Medicare reimbursement rates exemplifies the folly of her preferred approach. As I document in a recent ...
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Learn how Vance's suggestion would benefit consumers
Vance’s Argument on Preexisting Conditions a Sure Winner
When asked how people with pre-existing conditions would fare under a Trump-Vance administration during last week’s vice-presidential debate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, was unequivocal. “Well, of course, we’re going to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.” The question was prompted by Vance’s statement last month that the Republican ticket would consider creating different risk ...
340B. drug pricing
How The Hospital Industrial Complex Robs Poor Patients
Pharmaceutical leader Johnson & Johnson recently unleashed a firestorm in Washington after it proposed a change to how it offers discounted prices on two drugs in a little-known, but enormous, federal program that’s hurting the low-income patients it was created to help. That program, known as the “340B Drug Pricing Program,” allows ...
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Women, Children, Disabled Pay The Price For Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion
Obamacare greatly expanded Medicaid eligibility. As a result, about 20 million able-bodied, working-age adults who were previously ineligible are now enrolled in the program. But as a new report from the Paragon Health Institute makes clear, their gains have come at the expense of the pregnant women, children, and people ...
Commentary
Read about the Trump and Harris health care plans
Trump Has a Plan for Healthcare
Harris, by contrast, has been mum on whether she continues to support a government takeover of the health insurance system as she did during her first run for the presidency. Instead, she has said that she wants to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and extend President Joe Biden’s ruinously expensive scheme ...
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Learn about the latest problems with Obamacare
Americans Don’t Want Obamacare’s High Maintenance
At last week’s presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked about her previous support for Medicare For All, a $44 trillion proposal that would outlaw private insurance. She backed away from the questions, saying, “What we need to do is maintain and grow the Affordable Care Act.” Read the full ...
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Kamala Harris’ worst plan yet: bringing the NHS to America
Something, of course, must be done. Less than one in four people are satisfied with the NHS and its outdated centralised system of universal coverage, which routinely fails to provide adequate services. Some 7.6 million patients, including individuals suffering from cancer, are waiting to start treatment. About half have waited ...
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Read the latest about the problems with Obamacare
Junk Health Insurance? It’s Called Obamacare
The exchanges, in other words, are failing at one of their most fundamental jobs: expanding access to quality health care. Taxpayers cannot afford to divert yet more public money to subsidizing substandard exchange plans, as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has called for. Read the full article at Newsmax
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Trump is wrong about IVF
That is certainly true. But socializing coverage of IVF, or mandating that insurance pays for it, draws from the same Democratic playbook that has caused the cost of health coverage to surge. Read the full article at the Washington Examiner
Commentary
This November, Choose Wisely on Healthcare
And the two political parties have wildly different approaches to solving that problem. The Democrats believe that subjecting more of our healthcare system to government control is the answer. Republicans argue that competition, free markets, and private-sector ingenuity can bring about better care at lower cost. Read the full article ...
Learn more about how price controls are driving physician shortages
Price Controls Are Harming Doctors
Whether its pharmaceuticals or health insurance, Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have only one healthcare policy – impose price controls. The untenable financial position of many doctors and private doctor practices due to tightening Medicare reimbursement rates exemplifies the folly of her preferred approach. As I document in a recent ...
Learn how Vance's suggestion would benefit consumers
Vance’s Argument on Preexisting Conditions a Sure Winner
When asked how people with pre-existing conditions would fare under a Trump-Vance administration during last week’s vice-presidential debate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, was unequivocal. “Well, of course, we’re going to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.” The question was prompted by Vance’s statement last month that the Republican ticket would consider creating different risk ...
How The Hospital Industrial Complex Robs Poor Patients
Pharmaceutical leader Johnson & Johnson recently unleashed a firestorm in Washington after it proposed a change to how it offers discounted prices on two drugs in a little-known, but enormous, federal program that’s hurting the low-income patients it was created to help. That program, known as the “340B Drug Pricing Program,” allows ...
Women, Children, Disabled Pay The Price For Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion
Obamacare greatly expanded Medicaid eligibility. As a result, about 20 million able-bodied, working-age adults who were previously ineligible are now enrolled in the program. But as a new report from the Paragon Health Institute makes clear, their gains have come at the expense of the pregnant women, children, and people ...
Read about the Trump and Harris health care plans
Trump Has a Plan for Healthcare
Harris, by contrast, has been mum on whether she continues to support a government takeover of the health insurance system as she did during her first run for the presidency. Instead, she has said that she wants to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and extend President Joe Biden’s ruinously expensive scheme ...
Learn about the latest problems with Obamacare
Americans Don’t Want Obamacare’s High Maintenance
At last week’s presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked about her previous support for Medicare For All, a $44 trillion proposal that would outlaw private insurance. She backed away from the questions, saying, “What we need to do is maintain and grow the Affordable Care Act.” Read the full ...
Kamala Harris’ worst plan yet: bringing the NHS to America
Something, of course, must be done. Less than one in four people are satisfied with the NHS and its outdated centralised system of universal coverage, which routinely fails to provide adequate services. Some 7.6 million patients, including individuals suffering from cancer, are waiting to start treatment. About half have waited ...
Read the latest about the problems with Obamacare
Junk Health Insurance? It’s Called Obamacare
The exchanges, in other words, are failing at one of their most fundamental jobs: expanding access to quality health care. Taxpayers cannot afford to divert yet more public money to subsidizing substandard exchange plans, as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has called for. Read the full article at Newsmax
Trump is wrong about IVF
That is certainly true. But socializing coverage of IVF, or mandating that insurance pays for it, draws from the same Democratic playbook that has caused the cost of health coverage to surge. Read the full article at the Washington Examiner
This November, Choose Wisely on Healthcare
And the two political parties have wildly different approaches to solving that problem. The Democrats believe that subjecting more of our healthcare system to government control is the answer. Republicans argue that competition, free markets, and private-sector ingenuity can bring about better care at lower cost. Read the full article ...
