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HSA Modernization 

POSTED BY Grace-Marie Turner on September 29, 2023.

While most of Congress is focused on the shutdown turmoil, we have good news to report on the free-market health reform front. The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday advanced two bills that would give consumers more freedom and flexibility in using their Health Savings Accounts to pay health costs. The measures would allow more people to create and contribute to an HSA while … [Read more...] about HSA Modernization 

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Fueling the Fires of Medical Inflation

POSTED BY Grace-Marie Turner on September 22, 2023.

The checks and balances of a properly functioning market are subverted in the U.S. health sector by public and private third-party payments.  Neither sellers nor buyers know what goods and services actually cost, and this blindness allows spending to rise faster than inflation year after year. Massive taxpayer subsidies and hidden private-sector transactions fuel the fires. So enter … [Read more...] about Fueling the Fires of Medical Inflation

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Targeting Big Health Care

POSTED BY Grace-Marie Turner on September 8, 2023.

Consolidation of large hospitals and health systems is on the political and policy radar screens of both Republicans and Democrats, offering a rare opportunity for action in a polarized Congress. Janet Trautwein, who heads the National Assn. of Benefits and Insurance Professionals, explains how consolidation harms patients in “Healthcare Concentration Is Far From What the Doctor … [Read more...] about Targeting Big Health Care

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Unseen Harm

POSTED BY Grace-Marie Turner on September 1, 2023.

As we anticipated last week in Medicare Drugs on the Chopping Block, President Biden announced on Tuesday the first 10 drugs his administration will target for its aggressive and punitive price control regime.  One is Eliquis, a blood thinner created by Bristol Myers Squibb. “I am one of the 40 million preventing an early death taking Eliquis twice a day for 6 years. It … [Read more...] about Unseen Harm

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Birth of the Laffer Curve

POSTED BY Grace-Marie Turner on August 31, 2023.

Eyewitness to the Cocktail Napkin that Launched a Presidency By Grace-Marie Turner Originally published at Bastiat’s Window, July 26, 2023. History was being made that late afternoon in the fall of 1974, but it seemed at the time to be just another meeting of Washington power brokers (and one young journalist) over cocktails at a hotel bar. The iconic Hotel Washington at … [Read more...] about Birth of the Laffer Curve

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Lives at Risk

POSTED BY Grace-Marie Turner on August 25, 2023.

The hammer drops next week on one of the most draconian price control schemes ever concocted in the U.S. President Biden will announce on Tuesday the first 10 Medicare Part D prescription drugs forced through a torturous maze called the Drug Price Negotiation Program, enacted this time last year as part of the ridiculously named Inflation Reduction Act—more accurately called … [Read more...] about Lives at Risk

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A New Addition

POSTED BY Grace-Marie Turner on July 28, 2023.

The Hoover Institution’s Lanhee Chen, Tom Church, and Daniel Heil unveiled their new “Choices for All Project” at an event yesterday in Washington, adding creative new ideas to the abundance of pro-patient health policy proposals offered by free-market think tanks. One new feature is the “Individual Health Account” designed to expand Health Savings Accounts to tens of millions more … [Read more...] about A New Addition

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Medical Futures

POSTED BY Grace-Marie Turner on July 21, 2023.

I accept virtually every invitation I receive to speak to students studying to enter the health field—whether in medical school or in policy or public health. Earlier this month, I spoke virtually to a group of medical students as part of a summer lecture series hosted by a major university. It would be an understatement to say they don’t accept the idea of a market-based system that would … [Read more...] about Medical Futures

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