Health CareAnalysis
Several Democrats on a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee at a hearing Wednesday derided short-term health-insurance plans as “junk,” accusing the Trump administration of “sabotaging”… Read More
Health Care Analysis
It’s been two years since Republicans fell one vote short of repealing and replacing Obamacare. Since then, Democrats have moved further to the left and… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Sin taxes of all types have unintended consequences. A new proposal in the House Ways and Means Committee to tax electronic cigarettes could harm the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
A recent piece in Medical Xpress drew attention to the high costs of U.S. health care—and just how far some Americans are going to escape… Read More
Health CareCommentary
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday intended to protect and improve Medicare benefits in a broad range of provisions designed mostly to increase… Read More
Health CareCommentary
President Donald Trump is making an ambitious move to build on a string of regulatory relief actions that “protect and improve” Medicare, the federal health… Read More
Health CareNews
The Department of Energy’s National Laboratory in New Mexico misplaced or lost track of enough fentanyl four years ago to kill more than 1,000 people, according… Read More
Health CareNews
Charles McLaughlin, a 71-year-old Marine veteran of the Vietnam War, recalls how useful Medicare and Medicare Advantage were when he was fighting another battle, this… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Senate is expected to vote soon on a resolution aimed at curbing the president’s efforts to reduce health care premiums and expand insurance options… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Earlier this year, parents in North Carolina faced heartbreaking news in the second trimester of pregnancy—their twin girls had developed a disease called twin-to-twin transfusion… Read More
Health CareCommentary
An earlier version of this post was based on a summary of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s prescription drug pricing bill that was leaked to the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The introduction of penicillin in the 1940s was a revolution in medicine. Within a decade of its widespread use, however, bacteria began to develop resistance… Read More
Health CareCommentary
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reportedly readying a plan that could limit Americans’ access to lifesaving medicines and impede the development of new treatments for… Read More
Health CareCommentary
DUBLIN—”When would you like to schedule your knee replacement surgery?” asked my American doctor before I left for Ireland? I gave him a date that… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Throughout much of last year, critics of the White House darkly warned that “Trump sabotage” of Obamacare would result in steep increases in premiums for… Read More
Health CareNews
The University of Vermont Medical Center forced a nurse to participate in an abortion, despite her objections, in violation of federal law protecting conscience rights,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Responding to popular anxiety over prescription drug prices, the Senate Finance Committee last month approved a bill to restructure the Medicare prescription drug benefit. The… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Americans cite health care as a major concern, if not their most important one. Health care ranked as the most important issue in last year’s… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Last week, the administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Seema Verma, spoke at The Heritage Foundation on the effect “Medicare for All”… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
Obamacare is old news for the political left. Now, the big item is “Medicare for All”—a single-payer, government-run health care system. But what kind of… Read More
Health CareCommentary
President Donald Trump says he wants health reform that will be better than Obamacare, better than what we had before Obamacare, and better than the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
America suffers from a grave societal ill that somehow has been totally ignored. As debate rages about health care (among other hot-button issues), no one… Read More
Health CareCommentary
A final rule on health reimbursement arrangements set to take effect in August could expand opportunities for American workers and their families to attain affordable… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
Canadian Medicare, our northern neighbor’s universal health care system, generally receives rave reviews from proponents of nationalized or socialized health care, but the Fraser Institute… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Top Democrats have moved way beyond Obamacare and are now pushing Medicare for All—a single-payer, government-run program. Surveys show that Americans like the sound of… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Congress is rushing legislation on “surprise medical bills” that is conceptually flawed, legally dubious, and which could have profound and far-reaching consequences for the private… Read More
Health Care Analysis
Health care reform isn’t moving in Congress, but for Americans overall, it still registers as a top issue. Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., a former dentist… Read More
Health CareCommentary
After doctors in Britain’s single-payer health system recommended that a mentally disabled woman undergo an abortion, a judge ordered the woman—an unidentified Roman Catholic—to have… Read More
Health CareNews
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that he said would “fundamentally” change the health care market by requiring hospitals to disclose in an… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Trump administration unveiled this week a final rule that will dramatically improve workers’ ability to access health insurance of their choice. The new rule… Read More
