Health Care Innovation
Biosimilars
Biosimilars offer NC rare opportunity to save millions without cutting care
As healthcare costs continue to rise, North Carolina lawmakers face a difficult and increasingly ongoing challenge: how to preserve quality health coverage for more than 750,000 teachers, state employees, retirees and their families without asking taxpayers to spend more or patients to pay higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs . . ...
Drug Innovation
California Supreme Court Decision Protects Future Medical Innovation
The Pacific Research Institute – the non-partisan, California-based, free-market think tank – today hailed a landmark California Supreme Court decision protecting future medical innovation. The ruling in the Gilead Tenofir Cases overturns a lower court decision that threatened to expose pharmaceutical innovators to sweeping new liability for decisions about the ...
Commentary
Hospital price transparency is good politics — and good policy
Few issues will shape this November’s midterm elections more than the rising cost of healthcare. Republicans returning home for the August recess can point to meaningful progress on one of the biggest drivers of those costs: hospital prices. In recent weeks, Congress has moved closer to making hospital price transparency ...
Commentary
Trump’s Push for Healthcare Transparency, Starting With Hospital Prices, Can Go Even Further
The Trump administration is making hospital price transparency a centerpiece of its Make America Healthy Again agenda — and it has a chance to go even further toward achieving this goal. Earlier this month, federal regulators warned more than 500 hospitals that they could be violating federal requirements to disclose ...
Commentary
Medicare Takes A Smart Step Toward Site-Neutral Payments
One of Medicare’s most puzzling rules has nothing to do with the care patients receive. For many routine outpatient services, it pays substantially more when care is delivered in a hospital-owned facility than when the exact same service is performed in an independent physician’s office or ambulatory surgery center. This ...
Commentary
The FDA’s sunscreen rules leave Americans exposed
Just in time for the beginning of summer, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new sunscreen ingredient for the first time in more than a quarter-century. Bemotrizinol is a next-generation ultraviolet filter already widely used in other nations. The FDA fully approved the ingredient for use in the ...
Commentary
Americans Get Medicines First – Why?
Americans hear a lot these days about how Europe has healthcare all figured out. Progressives love pointing to countries like Britain, France, and Canada as models America should follow — especially when it comes to prescription drug prices. What they rarely mention is the price those countries pay for government-controlled ...
Commentary
Read the latest on drug innovation from Sally Pipes
Big Medical Breakthroughs Start With Small Gains
That may not sound like much. For someone facing a terminal diagnosis, what difference does a few extra months really make, especially if the drugs that enable them cost tens of thousands of dollars, as so many cancer drugs do? That question misses the point. In medicine, the most important ...
Commentary
Left And Right Agree—Hospital Consolidation Is Driving Up Healthcare Costs
A growing bipartisan consensus is emerging around one of the biggest drivers of America’s healthcare affordability crisis: hospital consolidation. Two reports published this spring—one from the market-oriented Paragon Health Institute and another from the progressive advocacy group Families USA—arrive at remarkably similar conclusions. Large hospital systems have gained enormous market ...
Commentary
Deflating the controversy over Medicaid work requirements
Earlier this month, Nebraska became the first state to implement the Medicaid work requirements established by last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act — now renamed by Republicans as the working families tax cuts. Dozens of others are scrambling to follow suit before the January deadline. Democrats and much of ...
Biosimilars offer NC rare opportunity to save millions without cutting care
As healthcare costs continue to rise, North Carolina lawmakers face a difficult and increasingly ongoing challenge: how to preserve quality health coverage for more than 750,000 teachers, state employees, retirees and their families without asking taxpayers to spend more or patients to pay higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs . . ...
California Supreme Court Decision Protects Future Medical Innovation
The Pacific Research Institute – the non-partisan, California-based, free-market think tank – today hailed a landmark California Supreme Court decision protecting future medical innovation. The ruling in the Gilead Tenofir Cases overturns a lower court decision that threatened to expose pharmaceutical innovators to sweeping new liability for decisions about the ...
Hospital price transparency is good politics — and good policy
Few issues will shape this November’s midterm elections more than the rising cost of healthcare. Republicans returning home for the August recess can point to meaningful progress on one of the biggest drivers of those costs: hospital prices. In recent weeks, Congress has moved closer to making hospital price transparency ...
Trump’s Push for Healthcare Transparency, Starting With Hospital Prices, Can Go Even Further
The Trump administration is making hospital price transparency a centerpiece of its Make America Healthy Again agenda — and it has a chance to go even further toward achieving this goal. Earlier this month, federal regulators warned more than 500 hospitals that they could be violating federal requirements to disclose ...
Medicare Takes A Smart Step Toward Site-Neutral Payments
One of Medicare’s most puzzling rules has nothing to do with the care patients receive. For many routine outpatient services, it pays substantially more when care is delivered in a hospital-owned facility than when the exact same service is performed in an independent physician’s office or ambulatory surgery center. This ...
The FDA’s sunscreen rules leave Americans exposed
Just in time for the beginning of summer, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new sunscreen ingredient for the first time in more than a quarter-century. Bemotrizinol is a next-generation ultraviolet filter already widely used in other nations. The FDA fully approved the ingredient for use in the ...
Americans Get Medicines First – Why?
Americans hear a lot these days about how Europe has healthcare all figured out. Progressives love pointing to countries like Britain, France, and Canada as models America should follow — especially when it comes to prescription drug prices. What they rarely mention is the price those countries pay for government-controlled ...
Read the latest on drug innovation from Sally Pipes
Big Medical Breakthroughs Start With Small Gains
That may not sound like much. For someone facing a terminal diagnosis, what difference does a few extra months really make, especially if the drugs that enable them cost tens of thousands of dollars, as so many cancer drugs do? That question misses the point. In medicine, the most important ...
Left And Right Agree—Hospital Consolidation Is Driving Up Healthcare Costs
A growing bipartisan consensus is emerging around one of the biggest drivers of America’s healthcare affordability crisis: hospital consolidation. Two reports published this spring—one from the market-oriented Paragon Health Institute and another from the progressive advocacy group Families USA—arrive at remarkably similar conclusions. Large hospital systems have gained enormous market ...
Deflating the controversy over Medicaid work requirements
Earlier this month, Nebraska became the first state to implement the Medicaid work requirements established by last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act — now renamed by Republicans as the working families tax cuts. Dozens of others are scrambling to follow suit before the January deadline. Democrats and much of ...