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Starting With Prices, Let's Make Healthcare a Market Again
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (654+ words) Healthcare is one of the only markets where consumers buy services without seeing the price ahead of time. Patients are routinely expected to agree to tests, scans, and procedures with no idea of the. .. Starting With Prices, Let's Make Healthcare…...
140 Million Americans Are Locked Out of Low-Cost Access to Healthcare
1+ week, 4+ day ago (390+ words) As Tax Day approaches, Americans are looking for every legal way to keep more of what they earn. Healthcare is the expense most likely to derail any budget." Congress doesn't restrict IRA or 401(k) eligibility based on where you work. It…...
Obamacare Turns Sixteen. Consumers Need Relief
2+ week, 6+ day ago (28+ words) Real Clear Markets Obamacare Turns Sixteen. Consumers Need Relief Obamacare has doubled premiums for most consumers and continues to erode the quality of health insurance....
Inside the Black Box of Prescription Drug Pricing
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (436+ words) ERISA will be used once again " this time to introduce unprecedented transparency into the industry it helped create. In a new proposed PBM transparency rule, the Department has taken historic action to shine a light on PBM practices that inflate…...
Tough Decisions Await a Failure to Limit Healthcare Costs
2+ mon, 21+ hour ago (185+ words) For six weeks starting October 1, the federal government was shut down because of Democratic Party concerns that the ending of the temporary Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies, enacted in 2021, would have a devastating impact on many Americans. In September, the…...
Failure to Limit Healthcare Costs Will Lead To Tough Decisions
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (614+ words) For six weeks starting October 1, the federal government was shut down because of Democratic Party concerns that the ending of the temporary Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies, enacted in 2021, .. . Failure to Limit Healthcare Costs Will Lead To Tough Decisions For…...
Without Reform, Healthcare Will Swallow the Federal Budget
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (714+ words) Total healthcare spending by the American people is projected to reach at least$5. 9 trillionthis year. Over$2 trillionof that is estimated to be spent by the federal government on programs. .. Without Reform, Healthcare Will Swallow the Federal Budget Total healthcare spending…...
Tear Down the Regional Fed Walls, Mr. Warsh
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (620+ words) When Dwight Eisenhower took office, he did not try to modernize America's outdated road network. He scrapped it and built something new. Kevin Warsh, the nominee for Fed chair, will face a similar decision at the Federal Reserve. As incoming…...
Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare Protect Us From Much Worse
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (358+ words) Experts too easily forget that "government spending" is a benign way of describing central planning of precious resources. " Which means it fails repeatedly. Rich as the U. S. presently is, we're a fraction as rich as we could be if the federal…...
Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare Protect Us From Worse
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (73+ words) Real Clear Markets Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare Protect Us From Worse Experts too easily forget that "government spending" is a benign way of describing central planning of precious resources. Which means it fails repeatedly. Rich as the U. S. presently is,…...