Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
Creative Counting Can’t Fix The Inflation Reduction Act’s Flaws
Just three days before President Biden left office, his appointees tried to tie incoming Trump staffers’ hands on a health policy decision that affects millions of Americans and tens of billions in federal spending. On January 17, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a new list of 15 ...
Commentary
California could lead the way on bipartisan prescription drug reform
California State Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, recently introduced a bill aimed at reining in pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the middlemen largely responsible for the dysfunction plaguing our nation’s prescription drug market. Wiener’s effort should attract the support of lawmakers on both the left and right. By cracking down on ...
Commentary
Record Obamacare Enrollment Embarrassment Masquerades as Victory
Just under 24 million Americans have purchased health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges for 2025, marking yet another year of record-high enrollment. As in previous years, the Biden administration was quick to declare this surge in sign-ups a victory for patients. “Every American should have access to quality, ...
Commentary
Canada’s Healthcare System Has No Place In The United States
When Justin Trudeau announced earlier this month that he would resign as prime minister of Canada, Donald Trump was ready with one of his go-to jokes. “Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State,” then President-elect Trump posted on social media, echoing his frequent assertion that the United States ...
Commentary
Make Hospital Prices Transparent Again
In just a few days, President-elect Trump will reclaim the Oval Office. High on his list of priorities should be enforcing the hospital price transparency rules he announced during his first term. The rules, which took effect in 2021, require hospitals to publish prices for 300 common procedures — from ...
Commentary
Republicans can make Medicaid work again
The incoming Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress are looking to rein in Medicaid, the health insurance entitlement that consumed a record 10% of the federal budget in 2023 despite delivering substandard care to its 79.4 million enrollees. Democrats are lining up to denounce the GOP’s plans, which they claim will ...
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Make Hospitals Competitive Again by Reining in Spending
The United States spent $4.9 trillion on healthcare in 2023, according to figures published last month by the federal government. That’s an increase of 7.5% relative to 2022. What’s behind this astounding spending growth? It’s largely hospital care. Read the entire op-ed here.
Commentary
Medicare should cover anti-obesity drugs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a rule expanding Medicare and Medicaid patients’ access to anti-obesity drugs such as GLP-1s. Congress is also considering such a move. Expanding coverage to these patient groups makes sense. Read the entire op-ed here.
Commentary
Keep Your Price Controls Off Weight-Loss Drugs
Biden administration is proposing that Medicare and Medicaid cover Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. It’s unclear what the Trump administration will do with its predecessor’s proposal. Democrats may be trying to goad Medicare under Trump into slapping price controls on GLP-1s — something progressives have long wanted ...
Commentary
Obamacare is just overly expensive catastrophic health insurance
Democrats are warning of a surge in the number of uninsured if costly enhanced subsidies for exchange coverage expire as planned at the end of next year. But exchange coverage is borderline useless to many enrollees. It requires beneficiaries to fork over huge sums before it kicks in and confines ...
Creative Counting Can’t Fix The Inflation Reduction Act’s Flaws
Just three days before President Biden left office, his appointees tried to tie incoming Trump staffers’ hands on a health policy decision that affects millions of Americans and tens of billions in federal spending. On January 17, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a new list of 15 ...
California could lead the way on bipartisan prescription drug reform
California State Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, recently introduced a bill aimed at reining in pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the middlemen largely responsible for the dysfunction plaguing our nation’s prescription drug market. Wiener’s effort should attract the support of lawmakers on both the left and right. By cracking down on ...
Record Obamacare Enrollment Embarrassment Masquerades as Victory
Just under 24 million Americans have purchased health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges for 2025, marking yet another year of record-high enrollment. As in previous years, the Biden administration was quick to declare this surge in sign-ups a victory for patients. “Every American should have access to quality, ...
Canada’s Healthcare System Has No Place In The United States
When Justin Trudeau announced earlier this month that he would resign as prime minister of Canada, Donald Trump was ready with one of his go-to jokes. “Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State,” then President-elect Trump posted on social media, echoing his frequent assertion that the United States ...
Make Hospital Prices Transparent Again
In just a few days, President-elect Trump will reclaim the Oval Office. High on his list of priorities should be enforcing the hospital price transparency rules he announced during his first term. The rules, which took effect in 2021, require hospitals to publish prices for 300 common procedures — from ...
Republicans can make Medicaid work again
The incoming Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress are looking to rein in Medicaid, the health insurance entitlement that consumed a record 10% of the federal budget in 2023 despite delivering substandard care to its 79.4 million enrollees. Democrats are lining up to denounce the GOP’s plans, which they claim will ...
Make Hospitals Competitive Again by Reining in Spending
The United States spent $4.9 trillion on healthcare in 2023, according to figures published last month by the federal government. That’s an increase of 7.5% relative to 2022. What’s behind this astounding spending growth? It’s largely hospital care. Read the entire op-ed here.
Medicare should cover anti-obesity drugs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a rule expanding Medicare and Medicaid patients’ access to anti-obesity drugs such as GLP-1s. Congress is also considering such a move. Expanding coverage to these patient groups makes sense. Read the entire op-ed here.
Keep Your Price Controls Off Weight-Loss Drugs
Biden administration is proposing that Medicare and Medicaid cover Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. It’s unclear what the Trump administration will do with its predecessor’s proposal. Democrats may be trying to goad Medicare under Trump into slapping price controls on GLP-1s — something progressives have long wanted ...
Obamacare is just overly expensive catastrophic health insurance
Democrats are warning of a surge in the number of uninsured if costly enhanced subsidies for exchange coverage expire as planned at the end of next year. But exchange coverage is borderline useless to many enrollees. It requires beneficiaries to fork over huge sums before it kicks in and confines ...
