Commentary
Commentary
Lawsuit Against Drug Company Could Quash Future Cures
Like most pharmaceutical companies, Gilead Sciences Inc. devotes a huge amount of time and money to making sure its products are safe for patients. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its drugs to fight HIV, and these medications have worked remarkably well. It then developed the next generation of ...
Commentary
Read the latest on the problems facing Medicare
Medicare Is Now Unaffordable
“If anyone here tries to cut … Medicare … I will stop you.” That was President Biden’s promise to a joint session of Congress during last week’s State of the Union address. Some may find such tough talk reassuring. But Biden’s refusal to even acknowledge Medicare’s dire fiscal situation — much less chart a course ...
Commentary
Read about the latest drug rationing proposals
Let UK Keep Drug Rationing
Any list of the world’s most inhumane healthcare bureaucracies has to include Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence at the top. For over two decades, the agency has employed ruthless cost-benefit analyses to effectively deny British patients access to the latest medicines. Now NICE is looking to export its expertise rationing ...
Commentary
Medicaid shouldn’t pay for housing
Massachusetts is asking the Biden administration for permission to use money from Medicaid, the health program for low-income and disabled Americans jointly funded by the states and the federal government, to pay for temporary housing for homeless families and pregnant women, including newly arrived immigrants. It’s only the latest request by states to spend money specifically earmarked ...
Commentary
Read the latest on California gas prices
As Gas Prices Rise in California, Could Even More Pain at the Pump Be Coming?
California, its political class fixated on an unattainable net-zero carbon emissions transportation sector, has been laboring for years under a low carbon fuel standard. This monster was created by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. To comply with the LCFS fuel producers are required “to reduce the carbon intensity of fuels sold in California. ...
Commentary
Bane of High Health Care Costs Can Be Traced to Obamacare
About 3 in 4 Americans are at least somewhat worried about their ability to afford health care, according to the KFF Health Tracking Poll February 2024. That concern is at odds with their generally favorable view of the Affordable Care Act, which will mark its 14th birthday on March 23. Nearly 6 in ...
Commentary
Read the latest on medicare spending
Competition Or Insolvency? Medicare’s Time For Choosing.
America has a spending problem. Last month, the Congressional Budget Office reported that debt held by the public will exceed the entire economic output of the country next year. Within ten years, the debt will reach 116% of GDP—”an amount greater than at any point in the nation’s history,” as the ...
Commentary
Don’t take away short-term health plans
The Biden administration may soon finalize rules that would deprive many Americans, especially young and healthy ones, of affordable insurance coverage. That will be the consequence of President Joe Biden‘s plan to reverse a 2018 rule promulgated by the Trump administration that allowed low-cost short-term health plans to last up ...
Commentary
Obamacare coverage might be free. But that’s not good.
There’s a saying that nothing good in life is free. The latest Obamacare enrollment numbers are a case in point. The Biden administration recently announced that a record 21.3 million Americans signed up for Obamacare during this year’s open enrollment period. But many of those enrollees only signed up because they ...
Business & Economics
Read the latest on California's reparations proposal
Here’s what California’s radical reparations plan will cost taxpayers
Much of the discussion surrounding the push for reparations in California, New York and cities like San Francisco center on the historical justifications for mass payouts. Yet, as the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras said, “Numbers rule the universe.” Reparations proponents in California are quick to dismiss criticisms over cost. ...
Lawsuit Against Drug Company Could Quash Future Cures
Like most pharmaceutical companies, Gilead Sciences Inc. devotes a huge amount of time and money to making sure its products are safe for patients. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its drugs to fight HIV, and these medications have worked remarkably well. It then developed the next generation of ...
Read the latest on the problems facing Medicare
Medicare Is Now Unaffordable
“If anyone here tries to cut … Medicare … I will stop you.” That was President Biden’s promise to a joint session of Congress during last week’s State of the Union address. Some may find such tough talk reassuring. But Biden’s refusal to even acknowledge Medicare’s dire fiscal situation — much less chart a course ...
Read about the latest drug rationing proposals
Let UK Keep Drug Rationing
Any list of the world’s most inhumane healthcare bureaucracies has to include Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence at the top. For over two decades, the agency has employed ruthless cost-benefit analyses to effectively deny British patients access to the latest medicines. Now NICE is looking to export its expertise rationing ...
Medicaid shouldn’t pay for housing
Massachusetts is asking the Biden administration for permission to use money from Medicaid, the health program for low-income and disabled Americans jointly funded by the states and the federal government, to pay for temporary housing for homeless families and pregnant women, including newly arrived immigrants. It’s only the latest request by states to spend money specifically earmarked ...
Read the latest on California gas prices
As Gas Prices Rise in California, Could Even More Pain at the Pump Be Coming?
California, its political class fixated on an unattainable net-zero carbon emissions transportation sector, has been laboring for years under a low carbon fuel standard. This monster was created by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. To comply with the LCFS fuel producers are required “to reduce the carbon intensity of fuels sold in California. ...
Bane of High Health Care Costs Can Be Traced to Obamacare
About 3 in 4 Americans are at least somewhat worried about their ability to afford health care, according to the KFF Health Tracking Poll February 2024. That concern is at odds with their generally favorable view of the Affordable Care Act, which will mark its 14th birthday on March 23. Nearly 6 in ...
Read the latest on medicare spending
Competition Or Insolvency? Medicare’s Time For Choosing.
America has a spending problem. Last month, the Congressional Budget Office reported that debt held by the public will exceed the entire economic output of the country next year. Within ten years, the debt will reach 116% of GDP—”an amount greater than at any point in the nation’s history,” as the ...
Don’t take away short-term health plans
The Biden administration may soon finalize rules that would deprive many Americans, especially young and healthy ones, of affordable insurance coverage. That will be the consequence of President Joe Biden‘s plan to reverse a 2018 rule promulgated by the Trump administration that allowed low-cost short-term health plans to last up ...
Obamacare coverage might be free. But that’s not good.
There’s a saying that nothing good in life is free. The latest Obamacare enrollment numbers are a case in point. The Biden administration recently announced that a record 21.3 million Americans signed up for Obamacare during this year’s open enrollment period. But many of those enrollees only signed up because they ...
Read the latest on California's reparations proposal
Here’s what California’s radical reparations plan will cost taxpayers
Much of the discussion surrounding the push for reparations in California, New York and cities like San Francisco center on the historical justifications for mass payouts. Yet, as the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras said, “Numbers rule the universe.” Reparations proponents in California are quick to dismiss criticisms over cost. ...
