By Grace-Marie Turner | RealClearHealth | April 28, 2021 The debate over expanding government control of our health sector should have ended during the Covid-19 pandemic: Where there have been failures in responding to the crisis, it has been a failure of big government—such as the Center for Disease Control’s arrogant and clumsy insistence on controlling early development of testing … [Read more...] about The High Cost of Drug Price Controls
Don’t Attack Innovation
“Pharmaceutical Innovation is Winning the War on COVID-19. Biden Shouldn’t Disarm.” | By Doug Badger | Chicago Tribune, April 17, 2021 The Biden administration is launching what amounts to a federal assault against pharmaceutical innovation—innovation that led to the historic feat of producing vaccines against COVID-19 in record time. President Biden would impose federal price controls on … [Read more...] about Don’t Attack Innovation
Biden must keep his health care promises
By Brian Blase | The Hill March 18, 2021 | Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration appear to be laying the groundwork to take health coverage away from millions of people. Next week, House Democrats are holding a hearing on programs by the Trump administration that expanded valuable options for health coverage. Restricting private options would be … [Read more...] about Biden must keep his health care promises
Back To Normal?—Doug Badger In Sun Sentinel
Will life after COVID-19 be normal? |By Doug Badger |Sun Sentinel, March 5, 2021 | Can the federal government ban evictions? Seems like a pretty straightforward question. But the answer touches on a deeper one, as yet unsettled: Will life after COVID-19 be normal? Consider what a federal judge said recently when he struck down a Centers for Disease Control ban on evictions, which the Trump … [Read more...] about Back To Normal?—Doug Badger In Sun Sentinel
Dems’ Bill Increases Income Inequality—Brian Blase in NY Post
Dems New Covid Relief Bill Subsidizes Health Care for the Rich | By Brian Blase | New York Post, Feb. 28, 2021 Democrats’ holy grail is reducing income inequality. So it’s ironic that they are considering a bill to expand ObamaCare that will primarily benefit richer households and health-insurance companies. The massive coronavirus relief bill racing through Congress provides … [Read more...] about Dems’ Bill Increases Income Inequality—Brian Blase in NY Post
Expanded ACA Subsidies: Exacerbating Health Inflation and Income Inequality
The Covid relief bill racing through Congress is a huge giveaway to wealthy households and health insurers, will inflate health costs and premiums, exacerbates income inequality, and sets the stage for a significant loss of employer-sponsored coverage, according to the findings in an important new paper by Galen Senior Fellow Brian Blase. In “Expanded ACA Subsidies: Exacerbating Health … [Read more...] about Expanded ACA Subsidies: Exacerbating Health Inflation and Income Inequality
The New Push to Expand Government’s Role in Health Care Won’t Work
The following is an open letter from 68 leaders participating in the Health Policy Consensus Group. The full list of signatories follows the letter. Democrats in Congress have proposed a COVID-19 relief bill that includes provisions to dramatically increase government subsidies for health care coverage for millions of people who already have insurance while further expanding … [Read more...] about The New Push to Expand Government’s Role in Health Care Won’t Work
Assessing President Biden’s Obamacare Expansion Proposals
Joe Biden rejected calls from other Democrats to back a single-payer, government-run health care system, instead saying his plan was to expand the Affordable Care Act. President Biden is now proposing to "fix" it—including spending vastly more money on the program, creating a public option (i.e., another government-run health plan), and imposing price controls. Two of the country's leading … [Read more...] about Assessing President Biden’s Obamacare Expansion Proposals