Health Care Reform
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Millions of women missing breast cancer screenings due to red tape
More than 8 million American women between 45 and 64 are overdue for breast-cancer screening. That’s a staggering number for a disease expected to kill more than 40,000 women this year. The consequences of finding breast cancer late can be devastating. Five years after diagnosis, women whose cancer remains confined ...
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GOP Shouldn’t Run Away from Healthcare Reform
The Midterms Loom, Republicans Would Be Wise to Run on Healthcare Reform Ever since the congressional GOP failed to repeal Obamacare and then lost the 2018 midterms, Republicans have shied away from running on market-based healthcare reform. But that’s the wrong strategy, according to President Trump’s chief pollster Tony Fabrizio ...
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Association Health Plans Could Give Small Businesses A Break On Health Costs
Small businesses have struggled with the rising cost of health insurance for years. The Trump administration may soon give them a meaningful way to fight back. The Labor Department has submitted a proposed rule to the White House that would establish new pathways for groups of employers to band together ...
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Medicare’s Physician Pay Cut Will Cost Patients
The Trump administration has released Medicare’s proposed physician payment rule for 2027. Buried in the hundreds of pages of technical regulations is a familiar outcome — another cut in what physicians will be paid to care for seniors. Under the proposal, Medicare’s basic payment rate would fall by as much ...
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Trump’s healthcare fraud crackdown is paying off
Federal prosecutors recently announced that they’d charged 455 defendants in connection with more than $6.5 billion in alleged fraud involving Medicare, Medicaid, and other public healthcare programs. The news serves as a vivid reminder of just how much taxpayer money can disappear when oversight falls short. According to the Justice ...
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Trump Takes Aim: Hospitals’ Pricey Lack of Transparency
Earlier this month, federal regulators put more than 500 hospitals on notice for failing to properly disclose what they charge for common procedures and services. The warnings are the latest step in President Trump’s long-running effort to bring greater price transparency to healthcare. It’s a fight worth having. Click to ...
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Healthcare costs keep rising. Hospitals are a big reason why.
Congress recently hauled CEOs from some of the nation’s largest hospital systems to Capitol Hill to answer for America’s soaring healthcare costs. And lawmakers didn’t pull their punches. House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., accused hospitals of building “empires” and told executives that the prices they charge patients ...
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The Real Lesson Of America’s Rising Uninsured Rate
The number of uninsured Americans ticked upward to 26.7 million in 2024, according to an analysis published this month by KFF. The report’s authors attribute that trend to the “high cost of private insurance and limited availability of public coverage.” Unpack the numbers, though, and the situation becomes more complicated. ...
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Healthcare costs keep rising. Hospitals are a big reason why.
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., accused hospitals of building “empires” and told executives that the prices they charge patients amount to “borderline extortion.” The hearing underscored a reality Washington has been slow to confront. Hospitals are the primary drivers of rising health costs. They are consolidating markets, ...
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Left And Right Agree—Hospital Consolidation Is Driving Up Healthcare Costs
A growing bipartisan consensus is emerging around one of the biggest drivers of America’s healthcare affordability crisis: hospital consolidation. Two reports published this spring—one from the market-oriented Paragon Health Institute and another from the progressive advocacy group Families USA—arrive at remarkably similar conclusions. Large hospital systems have gained enormous market ...
Millions of women missing breast cancer screenings due to red tape
More than 8 million American women between 45 and 64 are overdue for breast-cancer screening. That’s a staggering number for a disease expected to kill more than 40,000 women this year. The consequences of finding breast cancer late can be devastating. Five years after diagnosis, women whose cancer remains confined ...
GOP Shouldn’t Run Away from Healthcare Reform
The Midterms Loom, Republicans Would Be Wise to Run on Healthcare Reform Ever since the congressional GOP failed to repeal Obamacare and then lost the 2018 midterms, Republicans have shied away from running on market-based healthcare reform. But that’s the wrong strategy, according to President Trump’s chief pollster Tony Fabrizio ...
Association Health Plans Could Give Small Businesses A Break On Health Costs
Small businesses have struggled with the rising cost of health insurance for years. The Trump administration may soon give them a meaningful way to fight back. The Labor Department has submitted a proposed rule to the White House that would establish new pathways for groups of employers to band together ...
Medicare’s Physician Pay Cut Will Cost Patients
The Trump administration has released Medicare’s proposed physician payment rule for 2027. Buried in the hundreds of pages of technical regulations is a familiar outcome — another cut in what physicians will be paid to care for seniors. Under the proposal, Medicare’s basic payment rate would fall by as much ...
Trump’s healthcare fraud crackdown is paying off
Federal prosecutors recently announced that they’d charged 455 defendants in connection with more than $6.5 billion in alleged fraud involving Medicare, Medicaid, and other public healthcare programs. The news serves as a vivid reminder of just how much taxpayer money can disappear when oversight falls short. According to the Justice ...
Trump Takes Aim: Hospitals’ Pricey Lack of Transparency
Earlier this month, federal regulators put more than 500 hospitals on notice for failing to properly disclose what they charge for common procedures and services. The warnings are the latest step in President Trump’s long-running effort to bring greater price transparency to healthcare. It’s a fight worth having. Click to ...
Healthcare costs keep rising. Hospitals are a big reason why.
Congress recently hauled CEOs from some of the nation’s largest hospital systems to Capitol Hill to answer for America’s soaring healthcare costs. And lawmakers didn’t pull their punches. House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., accused hospitals of building “empires” and told executives that the prices they charge patients ...
The Real Lesson Of America’s Rising Uninsured Rate
The number of uninsured Americans ticked upward to 26.7 million in 2024, according to an analysis published this month by KFF. The report’s authors attribute that trend to the “high cost of private insurance and limited availability of public coverage.” Unpack the numbers, though, and the situation becomes more complicated. ...
Healthcare costs keep rising. Hospitals are a big reason why.
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., accused hospitals of building “empires” and told executives that the prices they charge patients amount to “borderline extortion.” The hearing underscored a reality Washington has been slow to confront. Hospitals are the primary drivers of rising health costs. They are consolidating markets, ...
Left And Right Agree—Hospital Consolidation Is Driving Up Healthcare Costs
A growing bipartisan consensus is emerging around one of the biggest drivers of America’s healthcare affordability crisis: hospital consolidation. Two reports published this spring—one from the market-oriented Paragon Health Institute and another from the progressive advocacy group Families USA—arrive at remarkably similar conclusions. Large hospital systems have gained enormous market ...