Commentary

Inflation Reduction Act Nightmare Targets Life-Savings Meds

August 18, 2022

Healthcare

President Joe Biden returned from vacation in South Carolina this week to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The country would have been better off had he stayed at the beach. The IRA includes a combination of massive tax increases, innovation-destroying price controls, and debt-funded spending commitments. That might be...

VA issues illustrate pitfalls of government health care

August 15, 2022

Healthcare

In the fall of 2020, a patient in Augusta, Georgia, went to the local Veterans Affairs medical center for a minimally invasive urologic surgery, according to a new report from the VA’s Office of Inspector General. Less than two weeks later, the OIG reports, he was...

Medicare for All Wouldn’t Have Saved Us From COVID

August 13, 2022

Healthcare

Could Medicare for All have averted more than 330,000 deaths over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic? That's the claim of a new study published by 10 researchers from four different universities in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To arrive at their figures, the...

Dems’ Reconciliation Package Obscures Obamacare’s Failures With Taxpayer Cash

August 12, 2022

Healthcare

With fewer than 100 days until the midterms and President Biden's approval rating underwater, Democrats are desperate for a political win they can trumpet on the campaign trail. They're hoping the deceptively named Inflation Reduction Act is it. At the center of the bill is $64 billion in subsidies for...

Dubious findings about food from the ‘Nutrition Researchers Guild’: How can we learn from this unscientific manipulation of statistics?

August 09, 2022

Environment

By Henry Miller and Stanley Young Are you confused about conflicting “research” findings on certain foods’ effects on our health? It would hardly be surprising. First, butter is the enemy; then, it’s solid margarine. Is caffeine good or bad for your heart? For a time, beta-carotene supplements...

Don’t Look for Inflation Reduction to Come from Capitol Hill

August 05, 2022

Healthcare

Democrats have christened their reconciliation bill, which is slated to hit the U.S. Senate floor this weekend, the "Inflation Reduction Act." It's a serious bit of false advertising. According to a new study from the Penn Wharton Budget Model at the University of Pennsylvania, the bill would...

Inflation act will fuel higher insurance premiums

August 04, 2022

Healthcare

The Senate is set to consider the Inflation Reduction Act, the Democrats' massive budget reconciliation legislation. President Joe Biden has stumped for the bill's hundreds of billions in tax hikes on corporations as a way to ensure they "pay their fair share." But many of those dollars will subsidize the...

In the wake of Biden’s COVID-19 infections, here’s what regulators should do to limit Paxlovid rebound

August 02, 2022

Healthcare

By Henry Miller and Josh Bloom President Biden’s bout with COVID-19 is illustrative of the debate currently raging about “Paxlovid rebound” — the recurrence of symptoms and of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 after a seemingly successful five-day treatment course of Paxlovid. This phenomenon is not unusual,...

The High Cost Of The Inflation Reduction Act

August 02, 2022

Business Economics

The right policy mix to address our current economic malaise is tighter monetary policy and pro-growth tax and regulatory policies. While the Federal Reserve is on the right track for monetary policy, the newly titled Inflation Reduction Act is completely wrongheaded. The tax provisions – such as imposing...

A Birthday Wish For Medicare And Medicaid: Less Waste And Better Care

August 01, 2022

Healthcare

This Saturday, July 30, marked 57 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law as part of his "Great Society." For almost six decades, the healthcare entitlements have grown increasingly costly and expansive while delivering subpar care to beneficiaries. Consider Medicare, the health plan for...