Commentary
Commentary
Colorado Gov. Polis’ new ‘study’ is a waste of time
The drive for single-payer health care won’t die. Gov. Jared Polis just signed legislation to spend $400,000 on a new “study” of how to bring government-run health care to the state. It’s a colossal waste of time and money. Decades of evidence from Canada and the United Kingdom show that ...
Commentary
Threatened With Legal Action, State Makes U-Turn on Electric Truck Mandates
Pressured by legal action from seventeen states that would have been impacted, California has agreed to not just drop enforcement of its electric truck mandate, but to repeal it entirely. Following the governor’s 2020 executive order that banned the sales of new internal-combustion engine cars in 2035, the state Air ...
Commentary
Trump Should Support Effective Drug Policy Reforms Not The MFN Gimmick
The Trump Administration has announced its desire to impose price controls on drugs – officially called a most favored nation (MFN) policy. Essentially, the policy sets the price for the targeted drugs at the lowest price in other industrialized countries. The president’s justification for the MFN is simple: Americans are ...
Commentary
Why sunblock in the U.S. is so much worse than in the E.U.
One in five Americans will develop skin cancer by age 70. Yet regulators in the United States have not approved sunscreens that can more effectively prevent the disease. Such safetyism makes little sense. Americans receive more diagnoses for skin cancer than for all other forms of cancer combined. It’s long ...
Commentary
Republicans are right to reform Medicaid
House Republicans held the mark-up last week for their reconciliation package, which includes several significant reforms to Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement that provides health benefits to roughly one in five Americans. The package is not perfect. But it would restore some measure of fiscal sanity to the program by, among ...
California
PRI On NPR: California Created Its Budget Woes
Winegarden joins Insight with his perspective on the state’s fiscal priorities and budget challenges. Listen to the entire interview here.
Commentary
President Trump Hasn’t Given Up on Hospital Price Transparency
For markets to function efficiently, consumers need to know how much things cost. This is as true for eggs and milk as it is for medical care. And it was this very insight that motivated the rule that President Donald J. Trump implemented during his first term in 2019 ordering ...
Classroom Ideology
The Disastrous Domino Effect of Social Promotion
Low student scores on national and state reading tests expose the disturbing reality that a lot of children are being promoted from one grade to the next even though they do not have the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed. Reading is the foundational skill that all children need to ...
Commentary
Direct-To-Consumer Ozempic Sales Are A Win For Patients And Drug Makers
Google Wegovy. Or Zepbound. The search results offer a preview of a direct-to-consumer future for prescription drugs. The brand-name drugs’ homepages generally get top billing. But not far down are ads for telehealth companies promising access to the drugs or others with the same active pharmaceutical ingredient, or API, without ...
Commentary
Dr Currie Myers Interview of Steve Smith
An eye-opening discussion on the real state of public safety in the Golden State
Colorado Gov. Polis’ new ‘study’ is a waste of time
The drive for single-payer health care won’t die. Gov. Jared Polis just signed legislation to spend $400,000 on a new “study” of how to bring government-run health care to the state. It’s a colossal waste of time and money. Decades of evidence from Canada and the United Kingdom show that ...
Threatened With Legal Action, State Makes U-Turn on Electric Truck Mandates
Pressured by legal action from seventeen states that would have been impacted, California has agreed to not just drop enforcement of its electric truck mandate, but to repeal it entirely. Following the governor’s 2020 executive order that banned the sales of new internal-combustion engine cars in 2035, the state Air ...
Trump Should Support Effective Drug Policy Reforms Not The MFN Gimmick
The Trump Administration has announced its desire to impose price controls on drugs – officially called a most favored nation (MFN) policy. Essentially, the policy sets the price for the targeted drugs at the lowest price in other industrialized countries. The president’s justification for the MFN is simple: Americans are ...
Why sunblock in the U.S. is so much worse than in the E.U.
One in five Americans will develop skin cancer by age 70. Yet regulators in the United States have not approved sunscreens that can more effectively prevent the disease. Such safetyism makes little sense. Americans receive more diagnoses for skin cancer than for all other forms of cancer combined. It’s long ...
Republicans are right to reform Medicaid
House Republicans held the mark-up last week for their reconciliation package, which includes several significant reforms to Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement that provides health benefits to roughly one in five Americans. The package is not perfect. But it would restore some measure of fiscal sanity to the program by, among ...
PRI On NPR: California Created Its Budget Woes
Winegarden joins Insight with his perspective on the state’s fiscal priorities and budget challenges. Listen to the entire interview here.
President Trump Hasn’t Given Up on Hospital Price Transparency
For markets to function efficiently, consumers need to know how much things cost. This is as true for eggs and milk as it is for medical care. And it was this very insight that motivated the rule that President Donald J. Trump implemented during his first term in 2019 ordering ...
The Disastrous Domino Effect of Social Promotion
Low student scores on national and state reading tests expose the disturbing reality that a lot of children are being promoted from one grade to the next even though they do not have the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed. Reading is the foundational skill that all children need to ...
Direct-To-Consumer Ozempic Sales Are A Win For Patients And Drug Makers
Google Wegovy. Or Zepbound. The search results offer a preview of a direct-to-consumer future for prescription drugs. The brand-name drugs’ homepages generally get top billing. But not far down are ads for telehealth companies promising access to the drugs or others with the same active pharmaceutical ingredient, or API, without ...
Dr Currie Myers Interview of Steve Smith
An eye-opening discussion on the real state of public safety in the Golden State
