The Wall Street Journal published another commentary by Galen Senior Fellow Brian Blase about the damage the ACA has done to individual health coverage. He also describes efforts by the Trump administration to broaden choices and make insurance more affordable. Here are highlights:Biden’s Plan for Health is Already a FailureObamaCare was supposed to improve the individual market. It … [Read more...] about ObamaCare Made Individual Market Worse
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Not ‘Junk’: Setting the Record Straight on Short-Term Health Coverage Plans
Several Democrats on a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee at a hearing Wednesday derided short-term health-insurance plans as “junk,” accusing the Trump administration of “sabotaging” the health care system with a rule that expanded people’s ability to purchase these plans. The accusations are without merit. While I was at the National Economic Council, I coordinated the … [Read more...] about Not ‘Junk’: Setting the Record Straight on Short-Term Health Coverage Plans
How price transparency would revolutionize healthcare
In his recent speech on health care, President Trump highlighted a proposed rule that hospitals make their prices public. It’s time for hospitals to comply. Transparency will likely lead to lower prices and a reduction in health care spending. Many policy experts dismiss the importance of price transparency in health care. Skeptics argue that because health insurance insulates … [Read more...] about How price transparency would revolutionize healthcare
Transparent Prices Will Help Consumers and Employers Reduce Health Spending
In this new paper, Galen Senior Fellow Brian Blase explains that greater transparency in health care pricing will help employers to offer better payment structures for their employees and give employees and other consumers more tools to get better value in health spending. Price transparency should also will give employers the ability to monitor insurer effectiveness and eliminate … [Read more...] about Transparent Prices Will Help Consumers and Employers Reduce Health Spending
Five smart ways Trump has improved our health care system
New York Post — Good politics involves consistent, simple messages. Opponents of the Trump administration believe they have found one with health care: sabotage. When new numbers showed a small uptick in the number of uninsured from 2017 to 2018 (which actually resulted from ObamaCare’s own failures), Democratic presidential candidates and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi all had statements … [Read more...] about Five smart ways Trump has improved our health care system