House Democrats haven't given up on bringing socialized health care to the United States — at least judging from a hearing the Committee on Oversight and Reform held earlier this week. The event was titled "Examining Pathways to Universal Health Coverage." But for the committee's Democrats, the only...
By Ken Artz A bill to establish a state-run, single-payer health care system in California was stopped without a vote in the state Assembly after supporters realized they didn’t have enough votes to pass it. A.B.1400 would have begun a state takeover of private insurance, Medicare, and...
In less than three weeks, the federal public health emergency for COVID-19 is set to expire. Some experts worry that the end of the emergency could unleash a flood of pent-up demand for health care—and add more stress to a health system already stretched thin. That's because...
California leads the nation in agricultural production. It’s no exaggeration to say this state feeds the world out of its fertile Central Valley. But that rich land has become a battlefield. California is the nation’s No. 1 state in agriculture commodity sales, with its share nearly double that...
Last week, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee held a hearing, "Prescription Drug Price Inflation: An Urgent Need to Lower Drug Prices in Medicare." It's rare to see so many falsehoods in so few words. The idea that drug-price inflation is especially bad or that it poses some sort...
By Chris Carr The California Supreme Court last week declined to stay a lower court order in a case involving a housing and classroom complex under construction on the UC Berkeley campus. This will effectively shut the door to one of America’s finest public universities for...
Earlier this month, Rep. Frank Pallone, a New Jersey Democrat, introduced a bill that could restrict the Food and Drug Administration's "accelerated approval" pathway — the program responsible for bringing promising medicines to patients years ahead of schedule. The accelerated approval pathway is a rare example...
Cities and states are attempting to set the nation’s energy policies through the judicial system rather than the appropriate legislative process. Dozens of states and localities including New York City, Baltimore, and various California cities have filed suits claiming that oil and gas companies should...
By Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and Andrew I. Fillat The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two more cases challenging the use of race as a criterion in college admissions, as has allegedly happened at Harvard University (a private institution) and the University of North...
It ignores the risk of hazardous drug-drug interactions with the Pfizer pill. As someone who has closely followed and written extensively about the development of COVID-19 vaccines and drug treatments since the beginning of the pandemic, one pronouncement in President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech raised red flags:...