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Oct 23, 2026
Congress recently made it easier for Americans to pay their doctors directly. But federal rules still prevent their health insurance from counting those payments toward a patient's...
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Oct 14, 2026
Some of the most expensive medicines in America are also the ones patients can least afford to go without. Biologic drugs are used to treat life-threatening and debilitating...
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Sep 25, 2026
Pharmaceuticals cost more in America than in any other developed nation. But copying Europe’s price controls with Most Favored Nation pricing (MFN) will not fix that problem....
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Sep 14, 2026
Visiting a doctor is easier when the appointment can take place from home. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has become a common option for many patients. For routine visits,...
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Aug 28, 2026
Tobacco regulation should make it easier to quit smoking, not harder. Cigarettes, the product responsible for the overwhelming majority of tobacco-related disease, remain widely...
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Aug 18, 2026
Prescription drug prices do not become opaque by accident. They become opaque because the middlemen who manage drug benefits are allowed to hide many of their revenue streams from...
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Jul 16, 2026
America has a shortage of healthcare workers, and patients are paying the price. Many communities, especially in rural areas, do not have enough doctors, registered nurses (RNs), and...
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Jul 7, 2026
Healthcare ranges from routine to complex, but in many states, doctors who could be focused on more complex care still spend valuable time treating patients with routine problems....
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Jun 25, 2026
A patient should not need a car, a day off work, and a nearby doctor’s office to receive basic healthcare. Yet for millions of Americans, access to healthcare depends less on...
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Jun 9, 2026
Imagine leaving a hospital with your newborn child only to learn your bill was $24,000 more than what it would have been at another hospital in the same area. This is the reality for...
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May 22, 2026
In an attempt secure healthcare supply chains and bring more manufacturing to the United States, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to reward hospitals...
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May 8, 2026
Prescription drug prices keep rising, driven in part by a system in which pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) sit at the center—controlling which drugs are covered, what...
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Apr 15, 2026
Despite the rapidly increasing cost of healthcare, productivity in the industry remains stagnant. In nearly every other sector of the economy automation drives efficiency and lowers...
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Mar 12, 2026
Many cutting-edge medicines come with sky-high price tags, leaving patients struggling to afford them. Biosimilars were introduced to help fix this problem. Think of them as the...
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Feb 4, 2026
If you wanted to design a health insurance system to keep drug prices high, you’d build exactly what the United States has today: a marketplace where patients never see real...