Health Care
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How one bad law drives hospital consolidation and high health care costs
Americans are getting squeezed by rising health care costs. The latest numbers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show that patient out-of-pocket spending increased by 10.4% in 2021, a rate not seen for more than three decades. The cost of monthly health insurance premiums also leapt, by 6.5%. ...
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Don’t Fall for Biden’s Obamacare Boosterism
The open enrollment period for HealthCare.gov came to a close last week. And at the end of this month, open enrollment in many of the states that run their own marketplaces will close. As of Jan. 11, the most recent date for which the government has data, roughly 15.9 million people have purchased ...
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Bernie Sanders wants universal health care. Canada shows why that’s a bad idea.
Sen. Bernie Sanders would do well to look at what’s happening across our northern border before he tries to advance legislation that would import Canada’s single-payer health care system, where the government is the only insurer. The new chairman of the influential Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, he’s made clear ...
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Sorry, we have to raise Medicare’s eligibility age
The United States hit its debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion Thursday. As a result, Republicans and Democrats are jousting over how to raise the federal government’s borrowing limit. Democrats have insisted on raising the debt ceiling without any conditions. Republicans, meanwhile, are looking to cut federal spending in exchange for any increase in the ...
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Transparency Is A Necessary First Step Toward A Better Healthcare System
The U.S. Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services has issued a new joint federal rule. Another federal mandate is hardly newsworthy, but one devised under the Trump Administration and eagerly implemented by the Biden Administration is certainly unique. Beyond the politics, the Transparency in Coverage rule, while not ...
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Grave Mistake to Fix Drug Prices Without Esteem for Their Value
Democrats remain fixated on prescription drug prices. Last August, they managed to include price controls on drugs dispensed through Medicare in the Inflation Reduction Act. And they’re not done meddling. Earlier this month, Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, called on President Biden to unilaterally suspend drug patents in order “to address the crisis ...
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Close The Border To Canadian Health Care
Next week, the U.S. Senate will return to work in Washington. Several key committees will welcome new leaders, including the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which will be led by Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sen. Sanders has promised to make “universal health care” a focus of his tenure atop the ...
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Don’t Buy Progressives’ Medical Debt Myth
More than four in ten adults have medical debt, according to recent research from the Kaiser Family Foundation. That has prompted several states to take action. Arizona voters recently approved a ballot measure capping interest rates on medical debt and protecting more personal property from creditors. New York has enacted legislation prohibiting healthcare providers from placing ...
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Britain shows perils of Medicare for All
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont independent, will soon take the helm of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. He has already promised that his chairmanship will “focus on universal health care.” Mr. Sanders has long advocated a government takeover of the U.S. health insurance system. The crumbling of the ...
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Adopting UK Healthcare Model Could Be Fatal for US Patients
For weeks, the United Kingdom’s government-run healthcare system, the National Health Service, has been roiled by a series of labor strikes. It began last month, when, for the first time in NHS history, thousands of nurses walked out for a day to protest inadequate pay. Days later, ambulance workers across England and ...
How one bad law drives hospital consolidation and high health care costs
Americans are getting squeezed by rising health care costs. The latest numbers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show that patient out-of-pocket spending increased by 10.4% in 2021, a rate not seen for more than three decades. The cost of monthly health insurance premiums also leapt, by 6.5%. ...
Don’t Fall for Biden’s Obamacare Boosterism
The open enrollment period for HealthCare.gov came to a close last week. And at the end of this month, open enrollment in many of the states that run their own marketplaces will close. As of Jan. 11, the most recent date for which the government has data, roughly 15.9 million people have purchased ...
Bernie Sanders wants universal health care. Canada shows why that’s a bad idea.
Sen. Bernie Sanders would do well to look at what’s happening across our northern border before he tries to advance legislation that would import Canada’s single-payer health care system, where the government is the only insurer. The new chairman of the influential Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, he’s made clear ...
Sorry, we have to raise Medicare’s eligibility age
The United States hit its debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion Thursday. As a result, Republicans and Democrats are jousting over how to raise the federal government’s borrowing limit. Democrats have insisted on raising the debt ceiling without any conditions. Republicans, meanwhile, are looking to cut federal spending in exchange for any increase in the ...
Transparency Is A Necessary First Step Toward A Better Healthcare System
The U.S. Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services has issued a new joint federal rule. Another federal mandate is hardly newsworthy, but one devised under the Trump Administration and eagerly implemented by the Biden Administration is certainly unique. Beyond the politics, the Transparency in Coverage rule, while not ...
Grave Mistake to Fix Drug Prices Without Esteem for Their Value
Democrats remain fixated on prescription drug prices. Last August, they managed to include price controls on drugs dispensed through Medicare in the Inflation Reduction Act. And they’re not done meddling. Earlier this month, Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, called on President Biden to unilaterally suspend drug patents in order “to address the crisis ...
Close The Border To Canadian Health Care
Next week, the U.S. Senate will return to work in Washington. Several key committees will welcome new leaders, including the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which will be led by Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sen. Sanders has promised to make “universal health care” a focus of his tenure atop the ...
Don’t Buy Progressives’ Medical Debt Myth
More than four in ten adults have medical debt, according to recent research from the Kaiser Family Foundation. That has prompted several states to take action. Arizona voters recently approved a ballot measure capping interest rates on medical debt and protecting more personal property from creditors. New York has enacted legislation prohibiting healthcare providers from placing ...
Britain shows perils of Medicare for All
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont independent, will soon take the helm of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. He has already promised that his chairmanship will “focus on universal health care.” Mr. Sanders has long advocated a government takeover of the U.S. health insurance system. The crumbling of the ...
Adopting UK Healthcare Model Could Be Fatal for US Patients
For weeks, the United Kingdom’s government-run healthcare system, the National Health Service, has been roiled by a series of labor strikes. It began last month, when, for the first time in NHS history, thousands of nurses walked out for a day to protest inadequate pay. Days later, ambulance workers across England and ...
