Jan 22, 2025
The Biden administration was quick to declare this surge in sign-ups a victory for patients. That claim doesn't square with the evidence. Americans haven't enrolled in Obamacare exchange plans in record numbers because of the quality of the coverage.
Jan 6, 2025
Let's turn our attention to the entities that account for the largest share of our nation's health bill, hospitals. In 2023, hospitals took in nearly one of every three dollars spent on health care in this country, a total of $1.5 trillion.
Dec 23, 2024
These subsidies would not have been necessary if Obamacare's insurance market regulations hadn't effectively outlawed low-cost plans and sent premiums and deductibles soaring.
Dec 18, 2024
It's certainly worthwhile for taxpayers to subsidize healthcare for veterans, especially given the sacrifice they've made. But confining veterans to treatment delivered by government-owned and-operated hospitals and treatment centers is misguided.
Dec 6, 2024
As the new Trump administration considers ways to make high-quality, affordable healthcare more available, a renewed focus on price transparency deserves a spot on the top of the list. It would go a long way toward injecting competition, closer to a system tailored to the needs of patients.
Nov 27, 2024
Few components of America's healthcare system are more in need of reform than Medicaid, and with Republicans set to control the House, Senate, and executive branch next year, there's finally a chance to address the program's considerable problems.
Nov 21, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump will need to follow through on some of the best policy ideas from his first term while taking additional steps to bring more choice, competition, and common sense to our health sector.
Nov 11, 2024
Doctors are getting a pay cut in 2025. That's the upshot of a rule issued by Medicare earlier this month. Patients will be the ones who pay the price for Medicare's parsimony. Seniors and younger people alike will find it harder to secure access to doctors and care.