Nov 27, 2024
Few components of America's healthcare system are more in need of reform than Medicaid, and with Republicans set to control the House, Senate, and executive branch next year, there's finally a chance to address the program's considerable problems.
Nov 21, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump will need to follow through on some of the best policy ideas from his first term while taking additional steps to bring more choice, competition, and common sense to our health sector.
Nov 11, 2024
Doctors are getting a pay cut in 2025. That's the upshot of a rule issued by Medicare earlier this month. Patients will be the ones who pay the price for Medicare's parsimony. Seniors and younger people alike will find it harder to secure access to doctors and care.
Nov 6, 2024
Over a three-month period last year, Medicaid enrollment declined by roughly 2 million, a new study in the journal Health Affairs reveals. The sudden contraction was mostly the result of a wind-down of COVID-19-era policies.
Oct 29, 2024
The Biden-Harris administration has helped initiate this new era of gaming the health insurance market. Rather than crack down, Democrats have largely encouraged it.
Oct 22, 2024
Extracting yet more money from the drug industry to fund home healthcare may be popular with the electorate. But the costs of Harris's proposal to Americans today and tomorrow, in dollars and in treatments foregone, can hardly be understated.
Oct 14, 2024
Tim Walz's home state of Minnesota offers up another example of how separate risk pools can work. Under a waiver granted by the Trump administration in 2017, the state subsidized the cost of insuring high-risk patients once an individual's claims exceeded a certain limit.
Oct 8, 2024
That progressives have chosen to attack former President Donald Trump and Sen. Vance on this issue has more to do with political tactics than factual accuracy.