The House Energy and Commerce Committee recently convened a hearing on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
Although the center “was created over a decade ago and provided billions in funding and broad authority to find ways to save taxpayer dollars and improve health outcomes for patients,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) noted, “it has little to show in demonstrated successful outcomes.” Why is this so?
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Hold off the death squads: Highly misleading coverage of SCOTUS immunity decision
On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow warned that the Supreme Court had just unleashed death squads to roam our streets. CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen announced that murder was now legal (at least for presidents), while others predicted that the ruling on presidential immunity would invite "tyranny."
Anyone reading the coverage would conclude that James Madison has been replaced by John Wick in a new "Baba Yaga" Republic.
President Biden fueled the se...
Trumpcare could be the gamechanger America is looking for
In last week’s debate, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both whiffed on a critical issue sliding under the radar in the race for the White House: the rising costs of healthcare.
It’s not the first such missed opportunity.
Early in his first term, Trump in good faith expressed confidence that a GOP Congress would deliver a “terrific,” “phenomenal,” and “fantastic” alternative to Obamacare. But former House Speaker Paul Ryan a...
Why be Trump’s running mate?
Over the last year, stories have run about how Gov. Doug Burgum, Sen. Tim Scott, Sen. J.D. Vance, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Sen. Tom Cotton, among others, "leads the pack for Trump veep pick." A recent headline declared the likeliest candidate now is Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.
No one knows for sure, of course; Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has made his mind up, but he says a lot of things. The presumptive Republican nominee has said repeatedly that the i...
Biden’s immigrant amnesty scheme will cost taxpayers billions
President Joe Biden just announced his latest executive action to gain votes. He plans to allow certain undocumented immigrants who have been in the U.S. for at least 10 years and married to a U.S. citizen to receive temporary legal status, which will permit them to legally work. While there are economic benefits to allowing them to work legally, there are also costs. And one of those costs will be the expansion of Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) subsidies for health ...
Affordable health care is on the ballot in November
“Low Insulin pricing was gotten for millions of Americans by me,” Donald Trump recently declared on Truth Social, his social media platform. And “Crooked” Joe Biden “had NOTHING to do with it.”
Trump’s claim is apparently based on his announcement in 2020 that some, but not all, pharmaceutical companies had agreed to cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin — which more than seven million Americans need to manage their diabetes — at $35 per month for individuals enrolled in Medicar...
Black voters: Make clear choices, not false equivalencies
To everyone trying to "both sides" the 2024 presidential election by claiming Joe Biden and Donald Trump are just two equally bad choices, here's my message: Cut the crap.
This isn't an election of two bad choices; it's an election of clear choices.
Black voters stand at a critical juncture. Our ancestors fought, bled and died for the right to choose our own destiny. One path leads toward a future that upholds the principles they fought for ...
America is full of the living dead — and Mississippi is ground zero.
Millions of our fellow Americans are essentially living as if they were walking dead. No, it’s not the premise of the latest AMC apocalypse drama or a summer blockbuster — it's the harsh reality for too many individuals and communities. They lack health insurance and, as a result, go undiagnosed. Untreated conditions manifest as silent killers.
The stark reality is that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, access to primary health care remains a privilege for the well-moneyed fe...
Biden needs a new economic distress message
It’s time for a change. Not in presidents but in the incumbent’s economic message. There are less than five months left until Election Day, and the first presidential debate is June 27. There’s still time for President Biden to hone a new economic theme on the road in the battleground states before the great debate.
Biden’s approval rating for handling the economy is the biggest obstacle he faces on the way to a second term. That’s the reason the president finds himself in a c...
What’s the matter with libertarianism?
When I first came to Washington to work for the Heritage Foundation, there were a few think tanks that made the nerd in me stand a little bit in awe. First, of course, was Heritage, but the second was the Cato Institute.
Heritage was conservative and Cato libertarian, but both seem roughly on the same side. They differed as to how far things should go, but they were both always in opposition to the left. Conservatives wanted constitutionally limited government; liber...