Health Care Policy

By Christopher Jacobs: Researchers estimated eliminating patient cost-sharing from a single-payer system would raise total health care spending by nearly $1 trillion per year.

By Edmund Haislmaier and Jamie Hall: Key Takeaways: Most Americans—73.5 percent—would be financially worse off under “Medicare for All,” a government-run universal health care system. All workers would pay a 21.2 percent payroll tax…

By James Schmitz: The doctor said, verbatim: “I can recommend a neurologist for you. I will say, she’s pretty booked so you won’t see her for at least nine months.”

By Chris Pope: This report concludes that, across these eight countries studied, the ability of citizens to obtain expensive medical procedures tends to increase in proportion to their ability to purchase insurance for medical…

By Dr. Robert Berry: Simply eliminating the tax exemption for employer-provided health insurance would bolster the economy by reducing health care costs and supplying much-needed labor to our nation’s employers while leveling the tax…

By Grace-Marie Turner: Respected health policy analyst Bob Laszewski concludes that Obamacare has failed and that is why Democrats want to move on.

By Christopher Jacobs: To say single payer would cause widespread economic disruption would be a gross understatement.

By Doug Badger and Jamie Bryan Hall: Last month’s Census Bureau report on the uninsured overlooked an important point: More than 99% of Americans have access to health coverage, regardless of their income or…

From American Healthcare Choices: Nearly 150 Republican members of Congress this week released a visionary health reform plan, “ A Framework for Personalized, Affordable Care,” that represents a new generation of reform. The 66-page…

By Brittany Hunter: Between the late 1990s and 2016, the cost of hospital and related services in the US rose by more than 177 percent. This has sparked concern, and rightfully so, that too many…

By Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde: Economics tells us that we can do better. The U.S. spends considerably more on healthcare than does any other country—we do not get a good return on our investment.