Dec 23, 2024
These subsidies would not have been necessary if Obamacare's insurance market regulations hadn't effectively outlawed low-cost plans and sent premiums and deductibles soaring.
Dec 18, 2024
It's certainly worthwhile for taxpayers to subsidize healthcare for veterans, especially given the sacrifice they've made. But confining veterans to treatment delivered by government-owned and-operated hospitals and treatment centers is misguided.
Dec 6, 2024
As the new Trump administration considers ways to make high-quality, affordable healthcare more available, a renewed focus on price transparency deserves a spot on the top of the list. It would go a long way toward injecting competition, closer to a system tailored to the needs of patients.
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.