Medicare Advantage Plans Face Payment Cuts

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it is changing the method it uses to calculate payments to Medicare Advantage (MA)...

Congress Mulls Tackling Abuses of 340B Drug Discount Program

A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators is seeking feedback on a controversial program that requires drug makers to sell discounted drugs to hospitals and...

Did Discounted Drugs Under 340B Prompt Hospital to Cancel Independent Doctors?

A group of cancer doctors is considering its next legal step in a case that sheds more light on the 340B government drug program...

Clinicians Demand Gender Care Textbook Be Withdrawn

Expressing “grave concerns,” a group of over 6,000 clinicians, scientists, and researchers signed an open letter calling on the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to...

Biden Administration Takes Steps to Reform ‘Prior Authorization’

The Biden administration finalized a new rule on how insurers can use prior authorization (PA), a practice aimed at reducing unnecessary treatment, but a...

Corporate Medicine, Physician Licensure a Bad Deal for Patients

Devin Herrick, Ph.D. (devonherrick@sbcglobal.net) is a health care economist. Physician licensure has created a cartel—there, I said it out loud. The right to practice medicine has...

New Mexico Bill Would Fund DEI Program to Combat Healthcare Shortage

A New Mexico bill advancing in the House aims to address a major healthcare worker shortage by giving $1.1 million to a university diversity,...

Families File Lawsuit over Hospital COVID-19 Treatment

Two widows who lost their husbands after they were given remdesivir filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Ramsey County District Court in Minnesota against...

Kansas Governor Makes Another Attempt to Expand Medicaid

Kansas may become the 42nd state in the nation to expand its Medicaid program. Gov. Laura Kelly (D) proposed the Cutting Healthcare Costs for All...

Congress Moves to Allow Inpatient Drug Addiction Care Under Medicaid

For the first time, states would have the option to provide inpatient care for drug addiction in mental hospitals for 30 days under Medicaid...

Illegal Aliens Get Free Health Care in California

California has set another milestone this year by becoming the first state to offer taxpayer-funded health insurance for all undocumented immigrants. Now, regardless of age,...

FDA Green Lights Florida’s Canadian Drug Import Program

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Florida’s plan to import drugs from Canada, a first for the agency that could save patients...

Physicians Urge Congress to Pull the COVID Shots

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) held a hearing on the injuries associated with the COVID-19 shots over...

Health Insurance Without Health Care – Commentary

One reason the United States spends more on health care than other countries is that we are obsessed with health insurance instead of health...

‘I Couldn’t Afford It’—Olympic Champion Mary Lou Retton on Health Insurance

Gymnast Mary Lou Retton, one of the most charismatic Olympic gold medalists of all time, narrowly escaped death from a rare form of pneumonia...

Diabetes-Related Amputations on the Rise

Diabetes-related amputations have reversed a decade-long trend and are now on the rise, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). ADA’s Amputation Prevention Alliance reports...

Biden Touts ‘Record-Breaking’ Obamacare Enrollment

After the 2024 open enrollment period for Obamacare ended, President Joe Biden boasted that 21.3 million people signed up for health insurance on the...

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AnneMarie Schieber is a research fellow at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Health Care News, Heartland's monthly newspaper for health care reform.