by Grace-Marie Turner | Forbes | June 1, 2020 | Bundled payments are a good idea, until they aren’t—for patients. The idea of paying a combined price rather than piecemeal for a routine medical treatment or procedure has gained traction as a way of driving efficiency. You wouldn’t want to buy a car by ordering a carburetor, ignition, fuel tank, braking system, etc. But when the government … [Read more...] about Bundled Payment For Dialysis Patients Can Block Access To Innovative Treatments
A Disaster for Life-Saving Innovation
by Grace-Marie Turner | RealClear Health | The Biden administration has taken a bulldozer to intellectual property rights in announcing it will not protect COVID-19 creator companies, auspiciously to hasten access to vaccines in developing countries. Instead of pulling this political stunt, officials should listen to the companies that already are on track to provide near-universal access to their … [Read more...] about A Disaster for Life-Saving Innovation
The “Family Glitch” Administrative Fix Under Consideration By The Biden Administration Remains Both Illegal And Harmful
by Brian Blase | Forbes | The Galen Institute released a short analysis I conducted explaining why an administrative fix to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) so-called family glitch would be both illegal and harmful. Dania Palanker, with the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, criticized the analysis I conducted, saying it was not based on the administrative fix the Biden … [Read more...] about The “Family Glitch” Administrative Fix Under Consideration By The Biden Administration Remains Both Illegal And Harmful
The benefits of government requiring health care price transparency
by Brian Blase | The Hill | One major difference between the health care sector and other economic sectors is the opacity and complexity of prices for medical goods and services. While in other sectors, prices for similar goods or services are generally analogous, health care prices can vary widely depending on where the service is received and who is paying. For this reason, shopping in … [Read more...] about The benefits of government requiring health care price transparency
Misplaced Trust on Mask Mandates
The CDC and mask mandates: Unmasking the truth | By Norbert Michel and Doug Badger | April 27, 2021, National Interest | How reliable are government declarations that mask mandates prevent the spread of the coronavirus? Not very, as a new article by Norbert Michel and Doug Badger in National Interest demonstrates. With the Center for Disease Control’s announcement this week that it’s … [Read more...] about Misplaced Trust on Mask Mandates
The High Cost of Drug Price Controls
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