Nina Owcharenko Schaefer is the director of the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
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The Biden administration is expected to announce, by Sept. 1, the first 10 prescription drugs it will target in its newly authorized drug price “negotiation”… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The official end of the COVID-19 emergency is near. That’s good news. It’s now up to the states to finish the job. The House of Representatives… Read More
SocietyCommentary
After the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden directed his administration to find ways to provide increased access to… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In the midst of a recession, with inflation eating away an average of $6,800 in purchasing power from the incomes of families with two workers,… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
A letter from the Congressional Budget Office in response to an inquiry by a Republican congressman from Missouri confirms that the Biden administration’s executive actions… Read More
EconomyCommentary
A budget is more than just the sum of its revenues and outlays. It’s also a reflection of the values held by its drafters. Based… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Politico got it right: “Democrats’ social spending proposal represents a sweeping expansion of the health safety net … .” Despite claims that negotiations among Democrats… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Slimming down the cost of the Democrats’ massive $3.5 trillion social-welfare spending bill is a compromise that misses the point. Opposition to the tax-and-spending bill… Read More
Health CareCommentary
A lot of transformative health care policy is embedded in Democrats’ $3.5 trillion social spending bill, including continuation of the Biden administration’s campaign to strip… Read More
Health CareCommentary
As negotiations over the staggering $3.4 trillion “Build Back Better” plan price tag continue to raise concern, the health policy agenda put forth in the… Read More
