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Hot topics: Drug prices and surprise bills

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Amidst the deluge of impeachment coverage, Speaker Pelosi has announced she will be bringing her aggressive prescription drug pricing bill to a vote in the House on Wednesday.   The bill would impose destructive price controls on medicines, levy crushing taxes of 95% on sales if companies that don’t play along, and extend the price controls to private plans.   The Council … [Read more...] about Hot topics: Drug prices and surprise bills

No Choice but to Move On

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Respected health policy analyst Bob Laszewski concludes that Obamacare has failed and that is why Democrats want to move on.  “Obamacare is ‘Stable’ at an Incredibly Unstable Place,” he writes, “The Democrats Want to Move Beyond Obamacare Because We Have No Other Choice.”  “Simply, we went from a pre-Obamacare system that hurt the poor and the sick to a post-Obamacare system that … [Read more...] about No Choice but to Move On

AHC Newsletter | 08-06-2018

August 6, 2018 Vol. 1 Issue 4 A Vision for Reform Trump’s Health Secretary Is Implementing Bold, Reaganesque Reforms By Robert E. Moffitt, PhD The Heritage Foundation, Aug. 2, 2018Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar recently outlined an ambitious health care policy agenda in the spirit of the late President Ronald Reagan.  In an address at … [Read more...] about AHC Newsletter | 08-06-2018

AHC Newsletter | 07-27-2018

  HHS Secretary Alex Azar Promotes Free-Market Principles in Health Sector Trump Aims to Increase Value and Decrease Costs of Health Care, HHS Secretary Says By Rachel del Guidice The Daily Signal, July 26, 2018Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that the Trump administration is working to deregulate health care with the goals of reforming the individual … [Read more...] about AHC Newsletter | 07-27-2018