Health Care
Commentary
Republicans did not cut Medicaid. They slowed its growth
Democrats have made a striking claim central to their midterm message: that Republicans have “cut” Medicaid by as much as $1 trillion. It’s a powerful line. It’s also misleading. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Medicaid spending is projected to rise every year for the foreseeable future, totaling more ...
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Congressional Affordability Fix Must Hold Hospitals Accountable
The nation’s top hospital lobbyist testified before the House last week for the third in a series of hearings on healthcare affordability. According to a recent poll from KFF (f/k/a Kaiser Family Foundation), a little less than half of Americans say they have trouble affording healthcare. Over one-third have skipped ...
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America’s Healthcare System Has Never Been Better At Keeping Patients Alive
American life expectancy has hit an all-time high. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, life expectancy at birth in 2024 was 79 years. Americans are living longer thanks to significant declines in death from things like cancer, heart disease and stroke. This progress is ...
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States are pushing Medicaid beyond its intended limits
Democrats have not given up their push to expand publicly funded health coverage to illegal immigrants in this country. In California, the state Senate is considering legislation that would allow all undocumented residents ages 19 and older to enroll in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. This year, California froze new ...
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Don’t undermine the system that incentivized GLP-1 development
A left-leaning pressure group recently sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asking his agency to rescind the patent rights earned by the developers of GLP-1 drugs. Some 12% of U.S. adults have taken these medications. Rescinding the patents is a dangerous idea that ...
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GOP Can Deliver Affordable Healthcare Americans Demand
Two-thirds of Americans worry about being able to afford healthcare, according to a recent KFF poll. And they’re looking to Washington to do something about it. Republicans have an opportunity to meet that demand — and turn healthcare from a political liability to a policy success. Read the op-ed here.
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The Legislature shouldn’t decide what vaccines to make illegal
A bill currently making its way through the Idaho Legislature could put the health of countless people at risk. Idaho’s Senate Health Committee recently atdvanced legislation that would impose a two-year moratorium on certain human gene therapy products and ban the use of mRNA vaccines for children and pregnant women ...
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Trump’s Plan To Peg Drug Prices to Foreign Countries Could Backfire
President Trump famously quipped during his run for a second term that he had “concepts of a plan” to fix health care. That plan finally came together in January — and congressional Republicans are eager to codify its concepts into law. Most of Mr. Trump’s “Great Healthcare Plan” is promising. ...
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Republicans Haven’t Cut Medicaid—But They Have Tightened Its Belt
Have Republicans cut $1 trillion from Medicaid? Democrats have made this assertion central to their pitch to voters with this fall’s midterm elections approaching. Yet a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office tells a different story. According to the agency’s latest projections, spending on Medicaid is set to ...
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Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Would Import Europe’s Drug Rationing
President Trump’s State of the Union address featured several promising healthcare ideas. Expanding access to patient-owned health savings accounts and routing federal subsidies through them, rather than through insurance companies, would unleash competition by empowering consumers to spend their healthcare dollars as they see fit. So would stronger price transparency ...
Republicans did not cut Medicaid. They slowed its growth
Democrats have made a striking claim central to their midterm message: that Republicans have “cut” Medicaid by as much as $1 trillion. It’s a powerful line. It’s also misleading. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Medicaid spending is projected to rise every year for the foreseeable future, totaling more ...
Congressional Affordability Fix Must Hold Hospitals Accountable
The nation’s top hospital lobbyist testified before the House last week for the third in a series of hearings on healthcare affordability. According to a recent poll from KFF (f/k/a Kaiser Family Foundation), a little less than half of Americans say they have trouble affording healthcare. Over one-third have skipped ...
America’s Healthcare System Has Never Been Better At Keeping Patients Alive
American life expectancy has hit an all-time high. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, life expectancy at birth in 2024 was 79 years. Americans are living longer thanks to significant declines in death from things like cancer, heart disease and stroke. This progress is ...
States are pushing Medicaid beyond its intended limits
Democrats have not given up their push to expand publicly funded health coverage to illegal immigrants in this country. In California, the state Senate is considering legislation that would allow all undocumented residents ages 19 and older to enroll in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. This year, California froze new ...
Don’t undermine the system that incentivized GLP-1 development
A left-leaning pressure group recently sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asking his agency to rescind the patent rights earned by the developers of GLP-1 drugs. Some 12% of U.S. adults have taken these medications. Rescinding the patents is a dangerous idea that ...
GOP Can Deliver Affordable Healthcare Americans Demand
Two-thirds of Americans worry about being able to afford healthcare, according to a recent KFF poll. And they’re looking to Washington to do something about it. Republicans have an opportunity to meet that demand — and turn healthcare from a political liability to a policy success. Read the op-ed here.
The Legislature shouldn’t decide what vaccines to make illegal
A bill currently making its way through the Idaho Legislature could put the health of countless people at risk. Idaho’s Senate Health Committee recently atdvanced legislation that would impose a two-year moratorium on certain human gene therapy products and ban the use of mRNA vaccines for children and pregnant women ...
Trump’s Plan To Peg Drug Prices to Foreign Countries Could Backfire
President Trump famously quipped during his run for a second term that he had “concepts of a plan” to fix health care. That plan finally came together in January — and congressional Republicans are eager to codify its concepts into law. Most of Mr. Trump’s “Great Healthcare Plan” is promising. ...
Republicans Haven’t Cut Medicaid—But They Have Tightened Its Belt
Have Republicans cut $1 trillion from Medicaid? Democrats have made this assertion central to their pitch to voters with this fall’s midterm elections approaching. Yet a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office tells a different story. According to the agency’s latest projections, spending on Medicaid is set to ...
Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Would Import Europe’s Drug Rationing
President Trump’s State of the Union address featured several promising healthcare ideas. Expanding access to patient-owned health savings accounts and routing federal subsidies through them, rather than through insurance companies, would unleash competition by empowering consumers to spend their healthcare dollars as they see fit. So would stronger price transparency ...