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Learn how Vance's suggestion would benefit consumers
Vance’s Argument on Preexisting Conditions a Sure Winner
When asked how people with pre-existing conditions would fare under a Trump-Vance administration during last week’s vice-presidential debate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, was unequivocal. “Well, of course, we’re going to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.” The question was prompted by Vance’s statement last month that the Republican ticket would consider creating different risk ...
340B. drug pricing
How The Hospital Industrial Complex Robs Poor Patients
Pharmaceutical leader Johnson & Johnson recently unleashed a firestorm in Washington after it proposed a change to how it offers discounted prices on two drugs in a little-known, but enormous, federal program that’s hurting the low-income patients it was created to help. That program, known as the “340B Drug Pricing Program,” allows ...
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Harris’s Farcical Price Control Schemes
Karl Marx famously said that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. Vice President Kamala Harris is bringing that aphorism to life by putting price controls at the center of her economic agenda. Despite centuries of evidence that such controls invariably lead to shortages, rationing and general economic ...
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American Healthcare Broken? Says Who?
A new study from the Commonwealth Fund ranks the U.S. health system dead last among 10 developed nations. But is healthcare in the United States really that bad? A close look at the data suggests otherwise. Read the full article in Newsmax.
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A British Lord’s Warning: Steer Clear of Single-Payer Healthcare
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans sounded the alarm about the oppressive government policies being propagated by British lords. Today, the tables have turned. This month, Lord Ara Darzi presented the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care with a devastating report on the state ...
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Women, Children, Disabled Pay The Price For Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion
Obamacare greatly expanded Medicaid eligibility. As a result, about 20 million able-bodied, working-age adults who were previously ineligible are now enrolled in the program. But as a new report from the Paragon Health Institute makes clear, their gains have come at the expense of the pregnant women, children, and people ...
Climate Change
Learn how municipal climate change lawsuits hurt consumers
Bonta’s legal war on energy companies will punish ordinary Californians
Neither are heroic efforts to safeguard the environment. The former will primarily harm families by worsening the nation’s pervasive affordability problems. The second is a clear effort to extract “multiple billions” from ExxonMobil while maximizing political optics in a state where the majority of voters will support anything they are ...
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Learn how PBMs pocket savings intended for patients
How Long Can Pharmacy Benefit Managers Go Unchecked?
Last week, a House subcommittee held a hearing on pharmacy benefit managers and their impact on the prices patients pay for prescription drugs. The hearing speaks to voters’ concerns. Republicans and Democrats alike have identified the cost of prescription drugs as their No. 2 health care concern, according to polling ...
California
Learn about the problems with LA's Measure ULA
Yet another example of a tax that didn’t live up to its promises
Measure ULA, approved by nearly 58% of the voters, initially imposed a 4% “mansion tax” on the sales of any homes or commercial properties valued at more than $5 million. The rate jumped to 5.5% on sales above $10 million. The thresholds increased to $5.15 million and $10.3 million on ...
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Read about the Trump and Harris health care plans
Trump Has a Plan for Healthcare
Harris, by contrast, has been mum on whether she continues to support a government takeover of the health insurance system as she did during her first run for the presidency. Instead, she has said that she wants to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and extend President Joe Biden’s ruinously expensive scheme ...
Learn how Vance's suggestion would benefit consumers
Vance’s Argument on Preexisting Conditions a Sure Winner
When asked how people with pre-existing conditions would fare under a Trump-Vance administration during last week’s vice-presidential debate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, was unequivocal. “Well, of course, we’re going to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.” The question was prompted by Vance’s statement last month that the Republican ticket would consider creating different risk ...
How The Hospital Industrial Complex Robs Poor Patients
Pharmaceutical leader Johnson & Johnson recently unleashed a firestorm in Washington after it proposed a change to how it offers discounted prices on two drugs in a little-known, but enormous, federal program that’s hurting the low-income patients it was created to help. That program, known as the “340B Drug Pricing Program,” allows ...
Harris’s Farcical Price Control Schemes
Karl Marx famously said that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. Vice President Kamala Harris is bringing that aphorism to life by putting price controls at the center of her economic agenda. Despite centuries of evidence that such controls invariably lead to shortages, rationing and general economic ...
American Healthcare Broken? Says Who?
A new study from the Commonwealth Fund ranks the U.S. health system dead last among 10 developed nations. But is healthcare in the United States really that bad? A close look at the data suggests otherwise. Read the full article in Newsmax.
A British Lord’s Warning: Steer Clear of Single-Payer Healthcare
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans sounded the alarm about the oppressive government policies being propagated by British lords. Today, the tables have turned. This month, Lord Ara Darzi presented the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care with a devastating report on the state ...
Women, Children, Disabled Pay The Price For Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion
Obamacare greatly expanded Medicaid eligibility. As a result, about 20 million able-bodied, working-age adults who were previously ineligible are now enrolled in the program. But as a new report from the Paragon Health Institute makes clear, their gains have come at the expense of the pregnant women, children, and people ...
Learn how municipal climate change lawsuits hurt consumers
Bonta’s legal war on energy companies will punish ordinary Californians
Neither are heroic efforts to safeguard the environment. The former will primarily harm families by worsening the nation’s pervasive affordability problems. The second is a clear effort to extract “multiple billions” from ExxonMobil while maximizing political optics in a state where the majority of voters will support anything they are ...
Learn how PBMs pocket savings intended for patients
How Long Can Pharmacy Benefit Managers Go Unchecked?
Last week, a House subcommittee held a hearing on pharmacy benefit managers and their impact on the prices patients pay for prescription drugs. The hearing speaks to voters’ concerns. Republicans and Democrats alike have identified the cost of prescription drugs as their No. 2 health care concern, according to polling ...
Learn about the problems with LA's Measure ULA
Yet another example of a tax that didn’t live up to its promises
Measure ULA, approved by nearly 58% of the voters, initially imposed a 4% “mansion tax” on the sales of any homes or commercial properties valued at more than $5 million. The rate jumped to 5.5% on sales above $10 million. The thresholds increased to $5.15 million and $10.3 million on ...
Read about the Trump and Harris health care plans
Trump Has a Plan for Healthcare
Harris, by contrast, has been mum on whether she continues to support a government takeover of the health insurance system as she did during her first run for the presidency. Instead, she has said that she wants to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and extend President Joe Biden’s ruinously expensive scheme ...
