Health Care Specialty physician practice consolidation raises prices and threatens quality As more physicians' practices merge to cut costs, the government should ensure patients receive quality care at reasonable prices.
Health Care Site-neutral billing is a common-sense reform for patients and taxpayers Site-neutral billing fosters an environment where health care is driven by the needs of patients, not the location of service delivery.
Health Care Tennessee and Alabama lead the way to alleviate impending physician shortage Recent laws allow medical graduates who have completed training abroad to apply to practice medicine in U.S. hospitals without a domestic residency program.
Health Care New ideas on modernizing Medicare A new book offers a pathway to strengthen health coverage for today's enrollees and preserve it for future generations.
Health Care Measuring the effectiveness of the No Surprises Act The NSA has protected patients from surprise medical expenses, but more can be done to lower costs.
Health Care Cutting biosimilar red tape could save billions Europe designates all biosimilars as interchangeable with original biologics. It's time for the United States to do the same.
Health Care Is the Veterans’ Community Care Program really that expensive? Giving vets the community-based care they want is not to blame for rising VHA costs.
Health Care A step in the right direction for American veterans How the Community Care Program has transformed the VHA and how it can be improved
Health Care Fixing Obamacare’s ‘family glitch’ is best left to Congress Biden's effort to fix a design flaw in the Affordable Care Act is itself flawed.
Prescription Drugs Aduhelm decision exposes Medicaid to billion-dollar costs To make Medicare and Medicaid more sustainable, both programs should have the liberty to exclude coverage of low-value drugs.
Prescription Drugs New FDA chief pressured to slow the pace of new drug approvals In order to accelerate FDA approval of more drugs, the agency should be more willing to pull drugs that fail in the real world.
Long-Term Care Biden State of the Union address revives flawed nursing home mandates The president's long-term care initiatives are likely to make the problems in a reeling industry worse.
Health Care Changing one rule can mitigate the pending doctor shortage The medical residency requirement for international graduates keeps thousands of qualified doctors out of the U.S. health care workforce
COVID-19 Emerging treatments for COVID-19 should lessen the impact of Omicron New therapies like Paxlovid will significantly reduce the danger of COVID-19, regardless of the coronavirus' natural evolution.
COVID-19 Biden’s vaccine mandate is too little, too late Given the changing pandemic landscape, Biden should reverse course and rescind the mandate before it is ever enforced.
Long-Term Care Will vaccine mandates in nursing homes lead to staff shortages? Healthcare providers who have already implemented COVID-19 vaccine mandates suggest that the threat of walkouts is overblown.
Health Care Why the Oklahoma State Medical Association endorsed price transparency Oklahoma could be used as a model of other states seeking transparency in healthcare pricing if law makers are willing to turn opponents into proponents through negotiation and cooperation.
Universal Coverage How single payer health care harms the working poor The New York Health Act would raise costs on 45% of low-income New Yorkers, and devastate the Empire State's economy.
COVID-19 Building on the success of COVID-19 vaccines in nursing homes A new proposal from the long-term care industry suffers from one substantial flaw: it relies on increased Medicaid spending to finance the improvements. Many of the problems laid bare during the pandemic relate to Medicaid's inflexible framework.
Hospitals How hospitals are evading price transparency rules Hospitals are using unconventional methods to avoid disclosing their prices for various health care services, in contravention of the Trump administration’s rule requiring them to disclose data in a way that is “easily accessible and without barriers.”
