Health CareCommentary
Competition, Not Government Control, Can Make Health Care Cheaper
In a new Gallup poll, 35 percent say government is the worst problem facing the U.S. In the 55 years that Gallup has asked the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Medicare’s Financial Condition Is Getting Worse. Here’s What Trump and Congress Can Do.
The financial condition of Medicare—the huge program that covers over 58 million beneficiaries—is deteriorating. The president and Congress are legally required to address the problem… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Why ‘Medicare for All’ Would Be Bad News for Everyone
Polls from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health with Politico show a majority of Americans favor “Medicare for All” proposals… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Eliminating Health Insurance Would Make Our Health Care Worse
“For people out there who like their insurance, they don’t get to keep it?” That question was asked not of President Barack Obama, whose false… Read More
Health CareNews
Sen. Kamala Harris Advocates Wiping Out Private Insurance Market: ‘Let’s Eliminate All of That’
Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris stated Monday that she feels “very strongly” about fully embracing the single-payer health insurance system, which would overhaul the entire… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This New Rule Will Expand Telemedicine to More Medicare Advantage Users
Good news for Americans who use Medicare Advantage. The Trump administration is proposing a new Medicare rule that will enable more Medicare Advantage enrollees to… Read More
Health CareNews
These Incoming Members of Congress Want Medicare for All
The House Medicare for All Caucus could count some new members when the 116th Congress convenes in January, although progressive candidates on the whole had… Read More
Health CareCommentary
How Congress Can Build on the President’s Work to Cut Health Care Costs
President Donald Trump, in a recent op-ed for USA Today, argued against the left’s Medicare for All idea. The president highlighted administration efforts to expand… Read More
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Health CareCommentary
How Medicare’s Private Plans Surpass the Traditional Program
Medicare Advantage, a system of competing private health plans, is surpassing the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program in delivering high quality, cost-effective medical care for senior and disabled… Read More
Health CareCommentary
New Study Shows Huge Cost of Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ Plan
Socialism is expensive. In a new cost analysis, Charles Blahous, formerly a member of the Medicare board of trustees, concludes that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Another Government-Run Website Is Failing, and It’s Not HealthCare.gov
Another government website is shortchanging consumers with inaccurate information, enrollment details presented in confusing Washington-speak, the unavailability of human support, and no easy way to… Read More
Health CareCommentary
In Order to Lower Drug Prices, 3 Areas the Government Should Address
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
Congressional Liberals’ Latest Attempt to Push Americans Out of Private Health Care
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
Seniors Face Return of Obamacare Tax in 2018
The clock is ticking for the return of an Obamacare tax that opponents say will hit older Americans on fixed incomes particularly hard, costing them… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Ugly Consequences of Single-Payer Health Care
The late, great Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman said it best: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Friedman’s pithy proverb reminds us that… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This Unelected Board Would Have Put Seniors’ Health Care at Risk. Now, It’s on the Chopping Block.
Finding bipartisan agreement on any issue today is rare, and on health reform, essentially nonexistent. So what’s getting both Democrats and Republicans on the same… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Think Obamacare Is Bad? ‘Medicare for All’ Would Make Things Even Worse.
As Republican senators look to scrape together the votes for a deal on health care, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is pushing his own proposal. He… Read More
Health CareCommentary
30 Years Later, Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ Plan Hasn’t Improved With Age
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was against socializing the U.S. health care system before he was for it. Who knew? In the late 1980s, Sanders, who… Read More
Health CareNews
Bernie Sanders Introduces Single-Payer Health Care Bill
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is pushing a single-payer health care bill that would give Americans health insurance through Medicare. “Today, we begin the long and… Read More
Health CareCommentary
How to Fully Realize the Potential of Medicare Advantage
The House Ways and Means subcommittee on health will host a hearing this week on promoting integrated and coordinated care for Medicare beneficiaries. The committee will… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Chronic Illness Is an Epidemic in America. This Senate Bill Will Help Address It.
Americans today are facing an epidemic of chronic illness, including arthritis, diabetes, and heart disease. In fact, chronic illness is now the biggest single driver… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Big Challenges Await Seema Verma, Trump’s Choice to Oversee Medicare, Medicaid
The Senate Finance Committee has completed nearly four hours of confirmation hearings for Seema Verma, President Donald Trump’s nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Medicare’s Next 50 Years: Fix the Problems and Improve the Program
Medicare, the giant health program covering senior and disabled citizens, turned 51 on July 30. While Americans understandably are preoccupied with a hot presidential race,… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
The House Is Improving Medicare, and the Senate Can Make It Even Better
The House of Representatives has passed a short, but significant, 31-page Medicare bill, Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act (H.R. 5273). The House measure would improve… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Obama’s Latest Executive Overreach Is in Medicare
The Obama administration has proposed regulatory changes in payment for Medicare Part B drugs. They’re looking to impose a broad, multi-year change through a demonstration… Read More
Health CareNews
Health Care Giant Abandons ‘Higher-Risk’ Obamacare Exchanges
Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group opted out of most Obamacare health exchanges on Tuesday after a review of its first-quarter earnings suggested the exchanges would… Read More
Health CareNews
Medicare Yet to Save Money Through Heralded Medical Payment Model
A high-profile Medicare experiment pushing doctors and hospitals to join together to operate more efficiently has yet to save the government money, with nearly half… Read More
Health CareCommentary
What’s Behind the Large Medicare Part B Premium Hike for Seniors?
Next year, millions of Medicare enrollees will see their premiums jump from $104.90 to $159.30, a stunning 52-percent increase. Today’s bureaucratic premium setting is inherently… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Why Government Price Controls Would Reduce Access to Drugs
Americans are concerned about rising drug prices, and they want Congress to do something about it. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, one of the… Read More
