Health Care Reform
Commentary
Hospitals are still neglecting transparency rules
The nonprofit group Patient Rights Advocate just published its fifth report exploring how hospitals are complying with federal price transparency requirements. About two-thirds are still flouting the rules. That’s unacceptable. Noncompliant hospitals are preventing patients and payers from shopping around for high-value care — and inflating healthcare costs in the process. The price transparency regulations went ...
Commentary
President Biden Is Taking Affordable Health Insurance Away From Millions Of Americans
President Biden is reaching back into his old boss’s policy playbook to put new restrictions on short-term health plans. This month, the White House proposed a rule that will restore Obama-era limits on the plans. The president has derided short-term insurance as “junk” that offers little protection from big potential healthcare expenses. ...
Commentary
President Biden just released his "Bidenomics" policy agenda
Biden’s Anti-Patient Agenda Is Dangerous, Yet Media Applauds
President Joe Biden just released his “Bidenomics” policy agenda, which he claims will “lower healthcare costs.” Among his first orders of business? Effectively banning some of the most affordable health plans on the market. On July 7, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury published a proposed rule that would ...
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Read the latest on short-term health plans
Forcing people off short-term health plans is the real insurance scam
The Biden administration recently proposed new regulations that would curb short-term health plans — or, as the White House likes to call them, “junk” or “scam” insurance. But the true scam is this attempt to deprive people of affordable coverage they like. Short-term plans aren’t subject to Obamacare’s many cost-inflating regulations, including requirements that insurers cover 10 essential health ...
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Read about the CHOICE arrangement act
GOP Notches a Victory Battle for Healthcare Choice
Any time lawmakers can introduce greater choice and dynamism into the health insurance market, patients benefit. The CHOICE Arrangement Act, which passed the House last month, is a perfect example. The bill would codify the so-called “individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements,” or ICHRAs, established through executive order by President Donald Trump in ...
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Americans' life expectancy is at a 20-year low
The US health system is not to blame for the decline in our life expectancy
Americans’ life expectancy is at a 20-year low. As a result, the gap in life expectancy between the United States and our global peers is progressively growing wider, according to a new report in the American Journal of Public Health. For years, progressives have blamed the lack of universal health coverage in the United States ...
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Read the latest on the Veterans Health Administration
Veterans have waited long enough for health reform
Republicans in Congress are moving forward with a new bill that would enable veterans to seek medical care outside the Veterans Health Administration. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., introduced the Veterans Health Care Freedom Act earlier this month. The measure has already attracted the support of more than a dozen GOP ...
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Take An X To The Public Health Insurance Option
There’s an old proverb—everything old is new again. That is certainly true for healthcare policy. Last month, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2023, the single-payer health plan the Vermont socialist has been pushing for years. President Biden will surely dust off his old proposal for a ...
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Read Sally Pipes' latest on health care reform
Repeal laws that stifle health care competition
Patients in several states could soon find it easier to access life-saving medical care, if state legislators and executive officials eliminate so-called certificate-of-need restrictions for new acute-care hospitals in rural areas. Certificate-of-need laws require health care providers to get a state government’s sign-off before building new facilities, expanding existing ones, ...
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Read about Biden's latest policy proposal
Time for Hospitals to Come Clean About Pricing
The Biden administration is cracking down on hospitals that keep their prices secret. Under a policy announced last week, failing to abide by Trump-era hospital price transparency rules will no longer prompt a warning letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Instead, hospitals will have 45 days to ...
Hospitals are still neglecting transparency rules
The nonprofit group Patient Rights Advocate just published its fifth report exploring how hospitals are complying with federal price transparency requirements. About two-thirds are still flouting the rules. That’s unacceptable. Noncompliant hospitals are preventing patients and payers from shopping around for high-value care — and inflating healthcare costs in the process. The price transparency regulations went ...
President Biden Is Taking Affordable Health Insurance Away From Millions Of Americans
President Biden is reaching back into his old boss’s policy playbook to put new restrictions on short-term health plans. This month, the White House proposed a rule that will restore Obama-era limits on the plans. The president has derided short-term insurance as “junk” that offers little protection from big potential healthcare expenses. ...
President Biden just released his "Bidenomics" policy agenda
Biden’s Anti-Patient Agenda Is Dangerous, Yet Media Applauds
President Joe Biden just released his “Bidenomics” policy agenda, which he claims will “lower healthcare costs.” Among his first orders of business? Effectively banning some of the most affordable health plans on the market. On July 7, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury published a proposed rule that would ...
Read the latest on short-term health plans
Forcing people off short-term health plans is the real insurance scam
The Biden administration recently proposed new regulations that would curb short-term health plans — or, as the White House likes to call them, “junk” or “scam” insurance. But the true scam is this attempt to deprive people of affordable coverage they like. Short-term plans aren’t subject to Obamacare’s many cost-inflating regulations, including requirements that insurers cover 10 essential health ...
Read about the CHOICE arrangement act
GOP Notches a Victory Battle for Healthcare Choice
Any time lawmakers can introduce greater choice and dynamism into the health insurance market, patients benefit. The CHOICE Arrangement Act, which passed the House last month, is a perfect example. The bill would codify the so-called “individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements,” or ICHRAs, established through executive order by President Donald Trump in ...
Americans' life expectancy is at a 20-year low
The US health system is not to blame for the decline in our life expectancy
Americans’ life expectancy is at a 20-year low. As a result, the gap in life expectancy between the United States and our global peers is progressively growing wider, according to a new report in the American Journal of Public Health. For years, progressives have blamed the lack of universal health coverage in the United States ...
Read the latest on the Veterans Health Administration
Veterans have waited long enough for health reform
Republicans in Congress are moving forward with a new bill that would enable veterans to seek medical care outside the Veterans Health Administration. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., introduced the Veterans Health Care Freedom Act earlier this month. The measure has already attracted the support of more than a dozen GOP ...
Take An X To The Public Health Insurance Option
There’s an old proverb—everything old is new again. That is certainly true for healthcare policy. Last month, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2023, the single-payer health plan the Vermont socialist has been pushing for years. President Biden will surely dust off his old proposal for a ...
Read Sally Pipes' latest on health care reform
Repeal laws that stifle health care competition
Patients in several states could soon find it easier to access life-saving medical care, if state legislators and executive officials eliminate so-called certificate-of-need restrictions for new acute-care hospitals in rural areas. Certificate-of-need laws require health care providers to get a state government’s sign-off before building new facilities, expanding existing ones, ...
Read about Biden's latest policy proposal
Time for Hospitals to Come Clean About Pricing
The Biden administration is cracking down on hospitals that keep their prices secret. Under a policy announced last week, failing to abide by Trump-era hospital price transparency rules will no longer prompt a warning letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Instead, hospitals will have 45 days to ...
