By Andy Blom, TES Correspondent After a Wild Card team with a 43 year old quarterback won the Super Bowl we once again believe anything can happen in America. Who knows…maybe taxes will go down…maybe regulations will disappear…maybe COVID-19 will vanish…maybe Government will stop spending us into debt. But until that happens and pigs […]
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“Most Favored Nation” Scheme May Lower Prices, But It Won’t Help Medicare Beneficiaries
By Krisztina Pusok, American Consumer Institute Back in September, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that instructed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to design a “payment model” that would see Medicare Part B beneficiaries and the federal government pay “no more than the most-favored-nation price” for medication. Recently, the HHS announced […]
Fred Gluck: Imagining a Bipartisan, Systematic Approach to Healthcare Reform
By Fred Gluck, TES Contributor As COVID-19 rivets our attention on health care, all proposed fixes for our health care system – from Medicare for All to a lightly regulated free market model – have the same fatal flaw. They merely tinker with the status quo, a slapdash, piecemeal design that will never […]
Government Tries to Regulate Drug Prices by Violating the First Amendment
By Ilya Shapiro and Dennis Garcia, courtesy of the Cato Institute Pharmaceutical companies rely on direct-to-consumer advertisements to reach potential customers and extol the benefits of their medications. This type of “commercial speech” enjoys protection under the First Amendment, though not to the same degree as other forms of expression. Merck v. HHS tests the limits […]
“Medicare for all” is a stepping stone to socialized medicine – and thence…
Responding to pressure from the Democratic Party’s leftwing, Nancy Pelosi has called for “Medicare for all,” as demanded by Bernie Sanders and dutifully parroted by his rivals as part of the party’s primaries. But the plan is a classic “Trojan Horse,” Steve Forbes argues, […]
WASHINGTON BEYOND THE HEADLINES: Heritage Blasts Debt, CEI vs. Carbon Tax, and more…
By Andy Blom, TES Contributor While the media screams about Mexico, Tariffs, The Mueller Report and Impeachment, free market conservatives are working every day on legislation, policy initiatives and practical approaches. Here’s a roundup of this week’s activity in Washington… Heritage Foundation Attacking the Debt. The Heritage Foundation has focused its […]