Senate Republicans Refuse To Let States Control Price-Shopping For Prescription Drugs
‘Gag clauses,’ inserted by pharmaceutical benefit managers, prohibit pharmacies from telling people that they might benefit from paying in cash rather than using their insurance card.
Florida Democrats Nominate A Candidate Who Supports Bill To Abolish Seniors’ Medicare
Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum supports Bernie Sanders’ health plan. That bill would end Medicare for seniors, which will fly like an anvil in senior-dominated Florida.
10 Senate Republicans Just Tried To Entrench Obamacare’s Taxes On Health
The sharp contrast between most Republicans’ Obamacare rhetoric and legislative actions show that they either do not understand federalism, or discard it when politically inconvenient.
Will The Trump Administration Help Republicans Expand Obamacare?
Instead of increasing the reach of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, which prioritizes able-bodied adults over individuals with disabilities, states need to see the tough choices ahead.
Study Pokes Huge Hole In Assertions That California Is An Obamacare Success Story
Obamacare has resulted in an increase in the use of emergency rooms in California, the study found — not a decrease, as promised.
Bernie Sanders Supporters Admit His Socialized Medicine Plan Will Ration Care
If Bernie Sanders wants to take a ‘victory lap’ for a study arguing that millions of health workers will receive the same amount of money for more work, I have four words: Good luck with that.
Here’s Another Big Fact The Obama Administration Hid To Pass Obamacare
If anonymous bureaucrats wish to attack a ‘post-fact era’ under President Trump, they should take a hard look in the mirror at what they did under President Obama to enact Obamacare.
Why Doesn’t The Senate Make Obamacare Exchange Heads Purchase Obamacare Coverage?
As with the principle that members of Congress should enroll in the Obamacare health insurance exchanges, so too should the CEOs running them.
With Health Bills, House GOP Happy To Satisfy Business Lobbyists While Ignoring Pro-Lifers
Even as the House will consider legislation creating a new qualified medical deduction for gym memberships, it has yet to pass legislation limiting abortion as a medical expense.
Obama-Supporting Think Tank Admits Obamacare Has Failed, Recommends Doubling Down
At this rate, Commonwealth Fund should stop putting out reports talking about all the health costs we could save by increasingly socializing medicine. Our country can’t afford them.
Bill In Congress Would Prevent DC From Imposing An Individual Mandate
By defunding the mandate, the Palmer amendment would effectively prohibit this tax increase, to say nothing of the threat of property seizures, from affecting residents of the nation’s capital.
7 Practical Strategies For Addressing America’s Mental Illness Crisis
The mere fact of an emerging consensus on the proposal that we rethink our national aversion to inpatient psychiatric care is profound, given the polarization of our time.
How Obama’s Medicaid Director Andy Slavitt Sabotaged Obamacare
If the Trump administration wanted to use the risk adjustment ruling to ‘sabotage’ Obamacare, it would have halted the program immediately after a February court ruling.
DC Passes Law Requiring People To Buy Health Insurance Or Have Their Property Seized
The D.C. mandate contains three elements that make it just as bad as, if not worse than, the federal mandate it is intended to replace.
What Liberals Won’t Tell You About Pre-Existing Conditions
Voters do like the idea of ‘protections for people with pre-existing conditions’ in the abstract. But when pressed, they express significant qualms about the trade-offs.
Republicans Once More Prove They Won’t Cut A Dime From Federal Spending
With the federal debt at $21 trillion and rising, if Congress will not act on this package, when will it discover fiscal discipline?
White House’s Reorganization Plan Would Make For A Leaner, Better FDA
The administration proposes changing the FDA’s name to the ‘Federal Drug Administration,’ making clear that its focus will solely be on drugs, devices, biologics, and tobacco.
Here’s What’s Inside The New ‘Consensus’ Health Policy Proposal
The plan includes parameters for a state-based block grant that would combine funds from Obamacare’s insurance subsidies and its Medicaid expansion into one pot of money.
Are The Heritage Foundation’s Politics Betraying Its Health Care Policy?
Despite these organizations’ own statements opposing these costly requirements, the plan from Heritage and others would leave them in place, hamstringing states.
Federalist Radio: The Latest Changes And Road Blocks In Health Care Policy
Senior health reporter at Politico, Jennifer Haberkorn, talks Obamacare, Congressional healthy policy, and ‘Right to Try’ on the Federalist Radio Hour.