Feb 20, 2025
Medicaid performs slightly better than Medicare on some measures, with an improper payment rate just over 5% for fiscal years 2022, 2023, and 2024. But that figure still comes out to $31.1 billion
Feb 11, 2025
PBMs have been able to operate in secret. Not only do most Americans have little idea what these firms do, they're unaware of discounted prices that PBMs have negotiated for their insurer clients. A genuine legislative push for drug price transparency would drag these dealings into light.
Feb 4, 2025
Medicaid was created as a health insurer of last resort for low-income Americans. In an era of scarce taxpayer dollars, it makes little sense to pay for public health coverage for people who should be able to take care of themselves.
Jan 22, 2025
The Biden administration was quick to declare this surge in sign-ups a victory for patients. That claim doesn't square with the evidence. Americans haven't enrolled in Obamacare exchange plans in record numbers because of the quality of the coverage.
Jan 6, 2025
Let's turn our attention to the entities that account for the largest share of our nation's health bill, hospitals. In 2023, hospitals took in nearly one of every three dollars spent on health care in this country, a total of $1.5 trillion.
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.