In Canada, government price controls have proven deadly. Importing them stateside with the Inflation Reduction Act will have similar consequences.
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Dems’ Reconciliation Package Obscures Obamacare’s Failures With Taxpayer Cash
Democrats have shown they will use any crisis to cover up Obamacare’s failures and protect their electoral fortunes.
A Birthday Wish For Medicare And Medicaid: Less Waste And Better Care
For almost six decades, Medicare and Medicaid have grown increasingly costly and expansive while delivering subpar care to beneficiaries.
It’s Time To Cure The FDA’s Regulatory Sclerosis
The FDA has not displayed sufficient urgency throughout the COVID-19 crisis—and is threatening to repeat its mistakes with the ongoing outbreak of monkeypox. It’s long past time for lawmakers to reform the sclerotic agency.
Government Drug Price Negotiations Offer A False Promise
These “negotiations” are just price controls in disguise. As such, they’d decimate medical innovation and deprive patients of access to lifesaving medications.
Blame The Regulatory State For The Healthcare Burnout Crisis
The sheer number of regulatory and administrative requirements placed on doctors and other healthcare workers has made these professions far more stressful, tedious, and exhausting than they need to be.
Bernie And The Single-Payer Beast
Sanders is hoping his government-run healthcare fairytale will finally become reality. For patients, that’d be anything but a happy ending
Is The End Of Private Practice Nigh?
Patients and providers should lament the increasing corporatization of medicine. All too often, it’s a recipe for lower-quality, higher-priced health care.
Medicaid Expansion Would Only Expand Waste And Poor Care
Americans living in non-expansion states should consider themselves lucky. Expanding Medicaid would only expand the entitlement’s inefficiencies and poor health outcomes.
It’s Time To Take Aim At Scope-Of-Practice Laws
Permanently rolling back restrictive scope-of-practice laws—and letting experienced healthcare workers do their jobs—is a common-sense reform that could benefit patients and the healthcare system alike.
