Galen Institute

Our colleagues are doing good and important work to advance health freedom.  A few highlights: The HSA OptionBrian Blase, et alParagon Health InstituteJune 22, 2022 Brian and colleagues explain in this new Paragon paper an “HSA Option” to allow lower-income Americans enrolled in ACA exchanges another way to access their subsidy.  Instead of having all of the … [Read more...] about Important Work 

The strategy of the left is quite transparent in building the case for government-run health care.  They take advantage of every opportunity to drag more and more people into government programs.   But they also produce targeted studies to attempt to besmirch patient-centered, free-market options. AEI Senior Fellow Tom Miller writes about another case in point: … [Read more...] about More Junk Science 

Many of the problems in our health sector result from misguided, even if well-intended, laws that lead to mountains of rules and regulations that distort a functional health sector.  Washington forces doctors, hospitals, and others to follow its dictates rather than respond to the needs of the American people for quality, affordable care and coverage.   Case in point: Senate … [Read more...] about How Washington makes it worse

The Biden administration is aggressively pushing to expand government-controlled health coverage on two fronts.  While we continue to develop and refine ideas that advance freedom and patient choice, we must warn policymakers of the dangers of further expansion of taxpayer-financed, deficit-expanding entitlement programs, especially: ACA Tax Credits: As part of a COVID relief package … [Read more...] about Two bad ideas

Another day, another testimony on Medicare for All—this time before a hearing chaired by its most passionate advocate, Sen. Bernie Sanders. Prof. Chuck Blahous of George Mason University’s Mercatus Center and I were called by Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee as witnesses to explain the serious problems with his legislation to put the federal government in total control of our health … [Read more...] about Call for a vote, Mr. Chairman!”

The ground is shifting in the health policy debate, my friends.  For most of the 25 years I have been working on this issue at the Galen Institute, the key issue has been coverage…coverage…coverage, with growing cries for Medicare for All and universal coverage. But now that virtually all Americans have access to coverage, even if they aren’t signed up, concerns are shifting … [Read more...] about Things are Looking Up