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ANALYSIS: COMPARISON OF U.S., CANADIAN SYSTEMS SHOWS SINGLE-PAYER IS A BAD DEAL
Widespread reports this spring that elderly patients in the United Kingdom were facing significant delays getting routine cataract operations coincided with the news that British rock music legend Mick Jagger… Read More
House panel sets Medicare for all hearing for next week
The House Ways & Means Committee will hold a hearing next week on “Medicare for all,” the proposal that would shift the U.S. to a single-payer health care system. Read More
On High Drug Prices, Republicans Shouldn’t Take the Arbitration Bait
With bipartisan consensus that drug prices are too high, the search is on for so-called “middle-of-the-road” policies that have a shot at becoming law. Thus far, this has only resulted… Read More
Drug Price Controls are Dangerous to Your Health
Almost all Americans want lower price prescription drugs, and it is indefensible that American consumers often have to pay higher prices than customers in developed nations around the world. This… Read More
California’s Medicaid for All
Milton Friedman once said you can’t have open borders and a welfare state. He may have found an ally in California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is in a standoff with… Read More
Democrats’ universal health care proposals are ‘immoral,’ Melissa Francis says
Medicare-for-all plans, including those floated by several Democrats seeking the White House in 2020, are “immoral” proposals that will reduce health care quality overall, Fox News’ Melissa Francis said. Read More
Medicare proposal threatens cures
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering a monumental change to Medicare — and believes that President Donald Trump might support her plan. Her big idea? Binding arbitration — a… Read More
Democrats Yet To Successfully Explain Medicare For All
Even with two dozen Democrats running for President and most touting an expansion of Medicare benefits to everybody, the public is still unclear how a national single payer health plan… Read More
Sally Pipes: ‘Medicare-for-all’ is worse than the CBO says it is (much worse)
This week, the House Budget Committee hosted three representatives from the Congressional Budget Office to discuss their new report analyzing the prospects for a single-payer health care system in America. Read More
Evan Lubline: Policy change would harm state’s Medicare beneficiaries
In the United States, an estimated 43 million family members—including spouses, children and siblings—are serving as home caregivers for people 50 and older. Medicare is a key support for millions… Read More