Sally Pipes: "CMS Undermining Next Generation of Medicines"
Treating distinct FDA-approved products as though they were the same drug doesn’t merely reinterpret the statute—it weakens the incentives that drive medical progress.
Benjamin Rush Institute
Benjamin Rush Institute seeks to educate medical students, residents, and students in affiliated fields of healthcare study about positive, proven healthcare policies that preserve and protect the doctor-patient relationship.
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Sally Pipes: "Medicare’s Drug Price Controls Could Actually Raise Prices In The Long Run"
Washington can mandate a lower price today. It cannot mandate robust competition tomorrow.
Sally Pipes: "Medicare’s Drug-Pricing Proposal Carries A Hidden Cost"
Drugmakers have already begun adjusting investment decisions in response to the Inflation Reduction Act and a new proposal to Medicare’s prescription drug price control scheme.
Sally Pipes: "Before Embracing Medicare for All, the U.S. Should Look at Britain"
Some 8.43 million Britons have purchased private medical insurance to escape their National Health Service. Under leading Medicare for All proposals, Americans would not have that option.
Brian Mew: "Medi-Cal Is Running Out of Money. A Billionaire Tax is the Worst Solution."
California does not have a revenue problem. Objectively, it has a spending problem. A bad one, at that.
Why More Government Won't Fix Health Care
If more government is the solution, why have decades of expanding its regulatory powers only brought higher costs, fewer choices, and a dissolution of the doctor-patient relationship?
Sally Pipes: "Medicare's Physician Pay Cut Will Cost Patients"
Cutting physician reimbursement may reduce spending on paper. But it also means fewer doctors, longer waits for appointments, and more care shifting into expensive hospital settings.
Sally Pipes: "Hospital Price Transparency is Good Politics—and Good Policy"
To function properly, markets require information. Patients and payers can’t reward lower-cost providers—and hospitals have little reason to compete—when prices are hidden.
Recap: Why Autonomy Matters: The Case for Direct Primary Care with Dr. Shane Purcell
Will the future of health care be decided by Congress, special interest groups, insurers, or conglomerates? Or will it instead be physicians who simply decide to practice differently?
Sally Pipes: "Medicare Pays Billions For Obesity’s Consequences. Its GLP-1 Bridge Offers A Better Way"
For years, Medicare has paid for the complications of obesity while refusing to cover some of the most effective treatments for the disease itself. It's time to correct that contradiction.
Sally Pipes: "Why Are States Taxing Companies for Hiring Poor People?"
If legislators make hiring a Medicaid recipient more expensive than hiring someone else, employers won't happily eat that cost. They will look for ways to avoid it.
Sally Pipes: "Don't Blame Breakthrough Drugs for Costs, Fix Hospital Market"
Spending that buys longer, healthier lives is an investment. Spending driven by consolidation and distorted incentives is waste.
Sally Pipes: "The Hidden Contracts Keeping Hospital Prices High"
As hospitals have grown bigger and negotiated more restrictive contracts, prices for patients have only skyrocketed. Now, federal antitrust officials are beginning to take notice—and push back.
Sally Pipes: "ACA's Patient Choice Boondoggle Not Aging Well"
Fifteen years after ACA's passage, our healthcare system is less affordable, less competitive, and less fiscally sustainable. Yet many progressives argue for even greater government control.
Sally Pipes: "Trump's Healthcare Fraud Crackdown Is Paying Off"
Those who steal from programs intended to serve seniors, low-income families, and people with disabilities should expect to be caught. Taxpayers and patients deserve nothing less.
Sally Pipes: "States are Grumbling About Medicaid Work Requirements. Taxpayers Shouldn't."
Medicaid grows larger, more expensive, and less focused every year. Work requirements will save taxpayers money, encourage upward mobility, and ensure Medicaid resources go to those who need it most.
Sally Pipes: "Trump Takes Aim At Hospitals' Pricey Lack of Transparency"
In virtually every sector of the economy, consumers compare prices before making decisions. But in healthcare, prices are often hidden, allowing hospitals to engage in questionable pricing practices.
Sally Pipes: "Healthcare Costs Keep Rising. Hospitals are a Big Reason Why."
Hospitals are consolidating markets, exploiting federal programs and using their growing leverage to raise prices for patients and taxpayers alike. Why? Because federal policy incentivizes it.
Sally Pipes: "The Real Lesson Of America’s Rising Uninsured Rate"
If policymakers want more Americans to obtain coverage, they need to make insurance better and cheaper—not merely more heavily subsidized.
Dr. Sonny Morton: This is How You Become a Slave
Are physicians in control of their own profession? Or are they effectively slaves to an uncaring bureaucracy?
Sally Pipes: "Declining Obamacare Enrollment Isn’t the Crisis Critics Claim"
Inflated enrollment totals by themselves are not signs of success. They are evidence of weak oversight, improper subsidy payments, and a system vulnerable to abuse.