# 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. Page: Feed: --- ## [Sally Pipes: "CMS Undermining Next Generation of Medicines"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-cms-undermining-next) _2026-08-18_ 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. ## [Sally Pipes: "Medicare’s Drug Price Controls Could Actually Raise Prices In The Long Run"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-medicares-drug-price) _2026-08-17_ Washington can mandate a lower price today. It cannot mandate robust competition tomorrow. ## [Sally Pipes: "Medicare’s Drug-Pricing Proposal Carries A Hidden Cost"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-medicares-drug-pricing) _2026-08-11_ 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"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-before-embracing-medicare) _2026-08-10_ 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."](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/brian-mew-medi-cal-is-running-out) _2026-08-07 · Brian Mew_ 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](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/why-more-government-wont-fix-health) _2026-08-04 · Brian Mew_ 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"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-medicares-physician-pay) _2026-08-04_ 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"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-hospital-price-transparency) _2026-08-03_ 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](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/recap-why-autonomy-matters-the-case) _2026-07-31 · Brian Mew_ 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? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209301123/384f92099787dbc18c4b8ac66359868e.mp3) ## [Sally Pipes: "Medicare Pays Billions For Obesity’s Consequences. Its GLP-1 Bridge Offers A Better Way"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-medicare-pays-billions) _2026-07-28_ 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. ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/IDdRi7dG6Cxv) _2026-07-28 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [Sally Pipes: "Why Are States Taxing Companies for Hiring Poor People?"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-why-are-states-taxing) _2026-07-27_ 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"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-dont-blame-breakthrough) _2026-07-21_ 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"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-the-hidden-contracts) _2026-07-18_ 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"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-acas-patient-choice-boondoggle) _2026-07-10_ 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"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-trumps-healthcare-fraud) _2026-07-08_ 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."](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-states-are-grumbling) _2026-07-06_ 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"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-trump-takes-aim-at-hospitals) _2026-07-02_ 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."](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-healthcare-costs-keep) _2026-07-01_ 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"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-the-real-lesson-of-americas) _2026-06-30_ 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](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/dr-sonny-morton-this-is-how-you-become) _2026-06-30 · Sonny Morton, MD_ Are physicians in control of their own profession? Or are they effectively slaves to an uncaring bureaucracy? ## [Earn crypto from idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tCGcb0fjUL1Q) _2026-06-30 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI command, connect your GPU, and start receiving crypto payouts. ## [Sally Pipes: "Declining Obamacare Enrollment Isn’t the Crisis Critics Claim"](https://benjaminrush1776.substack.com/p/sally-pipes-declining-obamacare-enrollment) _2026-06-23_ 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.