Health CareCommentary
Americans pour billions of their taxpayer dollars into treating mental illness, but the spending isn’t addressing the real crisis. Though most media coverage focuses on… Read More
Health CareCommentary
President Donald Trump is set to deliver his first major policy speech about drug costs this week. The president’s budget outlined several targeted initiatives in… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Whether and how to regulate marijuana use has been in the news again recently. Currently, federal laws classify marijuana as a “Schedule I” (unhelpful and… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The next time Sen. Bernie Sanders or his progressive Senate allies tout their proposal for total federal control of health care, just remember the case… Read More
Health CareCommentary
With the collapse of choice and competition in the Obamacare health insurance exchanges, combined with major premium and deductible increases, “progressives” in Congress are looking… Read More
Health CareNews
President Donald Trump’s prescription for lower drug costs likely will involve a push for more competition and clearing hurdles for more generic drugs. The president’s… Read More
Health CareCommentary
An open letter to the American public from over 35 conservative leaders, whose names are listed at the end. Congressional leaders were poised last month… Read More
Health CareNews
Roughly 400,000 fewer people signed up for Obamacare in 2018, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma announced Tuesday afternoon. “11.8 million consumers… Read More
Health CareNews
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has filed legislation to allow stricter prison terms for dealers of fentanyl, a substance he calls a “weapon of mass destruction.”… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This week, congressional leaders withdrew legislative language that would have bailed out Obamacare’s health insurance companies as part of the $1.3 trillion, 2,232-page omnibus spending… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
Why is a GOP-controlled Congress about to spend billions of taxpayer dollars propping up Obamacare? The Heritage Foundation’s Marie Fishpaw joins us to discuss. Plus:… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This month could mark a turning point in national health policy. Big insurance companies have been pressuring Congress for a bailout—in the form of more… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Republican Congress that was elected to repeal Obamacare is now considering bailing it out. It shouldn’t. Earlier this month, America’s Health Insurance Plans, the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
In a decision that has gotten almost no media attention, six states led by Texas have won another round against the Obama administration implementation of… Read More
Health CareNews
The Trump administration has rejected a health insurance initiative by Idaho that some saw as an affordable model for challenging the dominance of Obamacare. “Taking… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Congress appears poised to bail out Obamacare with new federal money in the omnibus package next week. Advocates of this bailout say it’s a good… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
Republicans campaigned for roughly a decade, promising voters they would dismantle former President Barack Obama’s landmark health care legislation; but one of their own senators… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Having failed last year to pass legislation undoing Obamacare’s damage, congressional Republicans now are reportedly looking to spend billions of additional tax dollars bailing out… Read More
Health CareNews
Opioid overdoses experienced another dramatic spike over the past year across every region of the country, according to a report from federal health officials. Data… Read More
Health CareCommentary
It appears that Congress, backed by powerful special interests in the health care industry, is getting ready to bail out, once again, Obamacare’s failing health… Read More
Health CareCommentary
By now, most have heard about the deadly opioid epidemic that has struck our nation. According to data compiled in a Kaiser Family Foundation report,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Alex Azar, the new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, outlined an ambitious health policy agenda this week in a major address… Read More
Health CareCommentary
President Donald Trump’s historic tax reform legislation repealed, among other things, Obamacare’s individual mandate tax penalty. Effective in 2019, the IRS will no longer penalize… Read More
Health CareNews
Now that Obamacare lacks the individual mandate tax that prompted the Supreme Court to hold it constitutional, 20 attorneys general are again challenging the law…. Read More
Health CareCommentary
With the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which repealed the tax penalty for the individual health insurance mandate, many Americans… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Every year, we see renewed efforts to push states to adopt Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. Virginia drew national attention this year when its House of Delegates… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Trump administration moved on Tuesday to deliver affordable health care to millions of Americans with a proposed rule that would expand the availability of short-term,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Flu season is the worst it has been since health officials began keeping records in 2004, and by some measures, it’s still getting worse. According… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget just released its annual budget proposal—and on health policy, it’s sending massively mixed messages. The Trump administration’s… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Congressional Republicans were elected to repeal Obamacare. They may run this year as the politicians who saved it. Since late last year, GOP leaders have… Read More
