Galen Institute

# 237 The Biden administration has opened yet another spigot to spend taxpayer dollars we don’t have on health insurance for yet another group.  We know the strategy:  Get a program in place and keep expanding it so more and more people are reliant on government for their health care.   The latest step is to give Obamacare coverage to more than 100,000 people in … [Read more...] about Breaking the Bank

# 236 Walmart announced on Tuesday “the difficult decision” to close its 51 Walmart Health Centers and telehealth program after determining “there is not a sustainable business model for us to continue.”   It blamed low payments and the high costs of operating the clinics. The announcement was a surprise, coming after the company said a year ago that it planned … [Read more...] about Walmart Walks

…for a short note about Galen. I want to share with you our 2023 Impact Report, “Expanding Health Freedom.”  We sent it via snail mail to many of our supporters and others, but we communicate primarily through email with many more of you so here it is, with highlights of our activities last year. From the beginning, our mission has been “to create and advance proposals that support … [Read more...] about We Interrupt This Program…. 

…until morale improves. The “Affordable” (Affordable!  Affordable! Affordable! 00:35:12) Care Act is causing yet another distortion in our health sector that’s making care even more unaffordable for patients. We wrote earlier about the massive consolidation in the health sector that was accelerated by the ACA. Now we have another example of how these … [Read more...] about The Punishment Will Continue…

Of all the craziness that came out of the Davos meeting earlier this year, one quote particularly struck me. One speaker said (paraphrasing because it has vanished from search engines), “We elites are more united than ever, making it all the more baffling why the masses are not following along with our solutions to tackle these big global challenges.” Disgusting, I know. Maybe it’s because … [Read more...] about We the People vs the Elites

The U.S. health system has been facing an extraordinary crisis for more than three weeks and, astonishingly, the story is only now making big news. The nation's largest processor of medical claims is embroiled in a ransomware cyberattack that has crippled payment systems across the country, with potential breaches of health records for millions of patients.  The cyberattack target is … [Read more...] about Health Care’s Invisible Crisis 

President Biden’s address last night highlighted a long list of “health care” proposals he’s planning in a second term that will exacerbate the very problems he purports to solve. For example, he wants to increase to 50 a year—from the current cap of 20—the number of prescription drugs the federal government can target with its take-it-or-suffer-the-consequences price … [Read more...] about Does the Mafia “Negotiate?”