Health Care Innovation
Commentary
States must remove government-imposed barriers to affordable and timely health care
The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency last month marked the end of several government waivers that helped expand access to care during the pandemic. Many of those waivers deserve to be made permanent. Paramount among them is the suspension of “certificate-of-need” laws that require health care providers to ...
Sally C. Pipes
August 6, 2023
Commentary
Bipartisan Price Transparency Reforms Will Improve Outcomes
Beneficial healthcare change is occurring – in a bipartisan manner too. The reform, referred to as the Transparency in Coverage (Tic) rule, improves the functioning of the healthcare market; and unlike the calls for price controls or increased government distortions, improving the efficiency of the healthcare market can achieve the ...
Wayne Winegarden
August 2, 2023
Commentary
Hospitals are still neglecting transparency rules
The nonprofit group Patient Rights Advocate just published its fifth report exploring how hospitals are complying with federal price transparency requirements. About two-thirds are still flouting the rules. That’s unacceptable. Noncompliant hospitals are preventing patients and payers from shopping around for high-value care — and inflating healthcare costs in the process. The price transparency regulations went ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 30, 2023
Commentary
President Biden Is Taking Affordable Health Insurance Away From Millions Of Americans
President Biden is reaching back into his old boss’s policy playbook to put new restrictions on short-term health plans. This month, the White House proposed a rule that will restore Obama-era limits on the plans. The president has derided short-term insurance as “junk” that offers little protection from big potential healthcare expenses. ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 24, 2023
Commentary
President Biden just released his "Bidenomics" policy agenda
Biden’s Anti-Patient Agenda Is Dangerous, Yet Media Applauds
President Joe Biden just released his “Bidenomics” policy agenda, which he claims will “lower healthcare costs.” Among his first orders of business? Effectively banning some of the most affordable health plans on the market. On July 7, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury published a proposed rule that would ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 19, 2023
Commentary
Read the latest on short-term health plans
Forcing people off short-term health plans is the real insurance scam
The Biden administration recently proposed new regulations that would curb short-term health plans — or, as the White House likes to call them, “junk” or “scam” insurance. But the true scam is this attempt to deprive people of affordable coverage they like. Short-term plans aren’t subject to Obamacare’s many cost-inflating regulations, including requirements that insurers cover 10 essential health ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 18, 2023
Commentary
Reimagine Health Insurance Away from Routine Maintenance
The health insurance system fails most Americans, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Nearly 6 in 10 insured adults have trouble using their coverage. Within that group, nearly 1 in 5 was unable to get needed care. It’s tempting to see this survey data as proof that health insurers aren’t doing ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 11, 2023
Commentary
Read about the CHOICE arrangement act
GOP Notches a Victory Battle for Healthcare Choice
Any time lawmakers can introduce greater choice and dynamism into the health insurance market, patients benefit. The CHOICE Arrangement Act, which passed the House last month, is a perfect example. The bill would codify the so-called “individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements,” or ICHRAs, established through executive order by President Donald Trump in ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 3, 2023
Commentary
There is a new Senate bill that targets PBMs
Break the Grip of Pharmacy Benefit Managers
A new Senate bill takes aim at one of the chief drivers of the high out-of-pocket drug costs that many consumers are experiencing — middlemen known as “pharmacy benefit managers.” Introduced in mid-June by a bipartisan group of senators including Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, ...
Sally C. Pipes
June 27, 2023
Drug Innovation
NEW BRIEF: Cash-Based Support Would Empower Vulnerable to Buy Private Health Insurance, Create More Effective Safety Net
Click to download the brief “Tens of millions are stuck in a flawed government-run healthcare system that provides sub-par care to patients, imposes huge taxpayer costs, and harms the broader healthcare system,” said Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and the series author. “By providing cash-based ...
Wayne H Winegarden
June 20, 2023
States must remove government-imposed barriers to affordable and timely health care
The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency last month marked the end of several government waivers that helped expand access to care during the pandemic. Many of those waivers deserve to be made permanent. Paramount among them is the suspension of “certificate-of-need” laws that require health care providers to ...
Bipartisan Price Transparency Reforms Will Improve Outcomes
Beneficial healthcare change is occurring – in a bipartisan manner too. The reform, referred to as the Transparency in Coverage (Tic) rule, improves the functioning of the healthcare market; and unlike the calls for price controls or increased government distortions, improving the efficiency of the healthcare market can achieve the ...
Hospitals are still neglecting transparency rules
The nonprofit group Patient Rights Advocate just published its fifth report exploring how hospitals are complying with federal price transparency requirements. About two-thirds are still flouting the rules. That’s unacceptable. Noncompliant hospitals are preventing patients and payers from shopping around for high-value care — and inflating healthcare costs in the process. The price transparency regulations went ...
President Biden Is Taking Affordable Health Insurance Away From Millions Of Americans
President Biden is reaching back into his old boss’s policy playbook to put new restrictions on short-term health plans. This month, the White House proposed a rule that will restore Obama-era limits on the plans. The president has derided short-term insurance as “junk” that offers little protection from big potential healthcare expenses. ...
President Biden just released his "Bidenomics" policy agenda
Biden’s Anti-Patient Agenda Is Dangerous, Yet Media Applauds
President Joe Biden just released his “Bidenomics” policy agenda, which he claims will “lower healthcare costs.” Among his first orders of business? Effectively banning some of the most affordable health plans on the market. On July 7, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury published a proposed rule that would ...
Read the latest on short-term health plans
Forcing people off short-term health plans is the real insurance scam
The Biden administration recently proposed new regulations that would curb short-term health plans — or, as the White House likes to call them, “junk” or “scam” insurance. But the true scam is this attempt to deprive people of affordable coverage they like. Short-term plans aren’t subject to Obamacare’s many cost-inflating regulations, including requirements that insurers cover 10 essential health ...
Reimagine Health Insurance Away from Routine Maintenance
The health insurance system fails most Americans, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Nearly 6 in 10 insured adults have trouble using their coverage. Within that group, nearly 1 in 5 was unable to get needed care. It’s tempting to see this survey data as proof that health insurers aren’t doing ...
Read about the CHOICE arrangement act
GOP Notches a Victory Battle for Healthcare Choice
Any time lawmakers can introduce greater choice and dynamism into the health insurance market, patients benefit. The CHOICE Arrangement Act, which passed the House last month, is a perfect example. The bill would codify the so-called “individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements,” or ICHRAs, established through executive order by President Donald Trump in ...
There is a new Senate bill that targets PBMs
Break the Grip of Pharmacy Benefit Managers
A new Senate bill takes aim at one of the chief drivers of the high out-of-pocket drug costs that many consumers are experiencing — middlemen known as “pharmacy benefit managers.” Introduced in mid-June by a bipartisan group of senators including Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, ...
NEW BRIEF: Cash-Based Support Would Empower Vulnerable to Buy Private Health Insurance, Create More Effective Safety Net
Click to download the brief “Tens of millions are stuck in a flawed government-run healthcare system that provides sub-par care to patients, imposes huge taxpayer costs, and harms the broader healthcare system,” said Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and the series author. “By providing cash-based ...