Health Care Blog

Eradicating the “Conscience Rule” Will Worsen the Doctor Shortage

May 26, 2022

Healthcare

The United States healthcare system, already strained by the pandemic, has a huge problem: a doctor shortage. Unfortunately, the Biden administration is currently poised to worsen that shortage by scrapping a controversial Trump-era policy: the conscience rule for healthcare providers. The Trump-era conscience rule allowed physicians...

Don’t Inject Critical Race Theory Into Healthcare

April 18, 2022

Healthcare

Should hospitals give preferential care based on race? One hospital in Boston thinks so, using critical race theory as a basis for “medical reparations.” Of every demographic, black Americans face the most risk for adverse health outcomes in the United States. We should concern ourselves with...

Patient Ownership of Medical Records Leads to Personalized Healthcare

March 30, 2022

Healthcare

Individualization is absolutely driving current consumer trends, but American healthcare is falling behind the times. This isn’t because healthcare cannot be personalized, but because of a web of outdated assumptions and policies holding healthcare innovation back from reaching its full potential. Todd Rose, a high school...

Why A Public Option Would Not Be Successful

March 08, 2022

Healthcare

Editor’s Note: Last week, PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes participated in a debate on the public option at the annual conference of the National Council of Insurance Legislators conference in Las Vegas. Nevada Assemblywoman Maggie...

The True Cost of Restrictive Healthcare Licensing Laws: Mother’s Lives

March 07, 2022

Healthcare

Becoming a mother in the United States is risky. Among developed nations, the US has the highest rate of maternal mortality, carrying double the risk than that of France, and 10 times the risk than that of Norway. Our maternal mortality rates are even increasing. Recently...

Embrace Genetically Engineered Crops to Mitigate Climate Change

March 04, 2022

By Henry I. Miller and Kathleen Hefferon Popular wisdom is often wrong. Consider, for example, how it views organic agriculture, which has grown to a $48 billion a year industry in the U.S. Organic products are sold at outlets ranging from local farmers’ markets to large...

Transparency as a Political Principle

February 11, 2022

In the Declaration of Independence, sandwiched between the bold announcement of regime-change and an affirmation of natural rights, Thomas Jefferson penned an often-overlooked phrase, “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” To...

Is This Any Way to Pass Sweeping Changes to People’s Health Care?

January 28, 2022

On Monday, lawmakers will vote on a sweeping change to the state’s health care system, which could dramatically change how every Californian receives health care, and for the worse. According to estimates, the bill would cost at least $356.5 billion per year to implement and would...

Three Legislative Reforms So Physicians Can Open Hospitals

January 26, 2022

Healthcare

It is rare to find an issue that unites both political parties. Finding such an issue within healthcare policy is even rarer. However, the worrisome trend of medical care provider consolidation – both individual practitioners and hospitals – concerns everyone. A well-researched fact, consolidation in medical...

Single-Payer Health Care Will Cost $12,250 per California Household

January 19, 2022

Healthcare

When Inside California Politics host Frank Buckley asked California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon whether he feels differently about the new attempt to bring single-payer health care to California (AB 1400) versus the last bill in 2017 (SB 562), Rendon replied, “that was really you know...