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Like all policies that give patients control over their health benefits, ICHRAs will help employers and employees get better value for their healthcare dollar.

When Americans have access to relevant pricing information, they can shop for health care and prescription drugs with the same eye for value and quality that they currently do in every other sector of the economy.

Self-funded health plans are not subject to most of Obamacare’s rules and requirements. So employers who self-insure can opt out of the high-cost fully insured market—and create plans that are more affordable.

Single-payer systems create unlimited demand for finite goods and services. This causes massive backlogs and leaves patients stuck waiting for medical care.

In the not-too-distant future, people of all ages may look back and rue this day—as the beginning of the end of America’s medical golden age.

By shining a light on PBMs’ questionable business practices, and potentially cracking down on some of their anticompetitive behavior, lawmakers can help patients fill their prescriptions without breaking the bank.

By thwarting state efforts to remove ineligible people from their Medicaid rolls, Democrats are making things more difficult for the program’s intended beneficiaries.

The president has derided short-term insurance as “junk” that offers little protection from big potential healthcare expenses. That’s a misleading, partisan claim.

Less spending on research almost certainly means fewer drugs would make it through the expensive and time-consuming FDA approval process.

Plans like Medicare-X are only popular because the politicians pushing them are bending the truth.