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Trump’s Pivot Could Make Health Care Affordable Again – Commentary
President Donald Trump sent out a very surprising statement on Truth Social on November 18, 2025. Though it applied to a specific policy issue—the expanded Obamacare subsidies which were scheduled to expire at the end of 2025—Trump’s statement was surprising because it marked a pivot toward a new perspective on health care reform: cash as…
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Trump Calls on Congress to Fix Health Care with ‘Framework’
President Donald Trump, on January 15 released “The Great Healthcare Plan,” a health care policy framework for Congress to enact legislation to rein in escalating consumer costs. Making up the framework are four pillars: lowering drug prices and insurance premiums, holding “big insurance companies accountable,” and maximizing price transparency. General Specifics The framework’s fact sheet…
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Cleaning Up Medicaid Fraud Will Save Indiana Millions of Dollars – Governor
Indiana is looking to save millions of dollars by reviewing the eligibility of Medicaid recipients and removing ineligible individuals from the program, said Indiana Governor Mike Braun in an interview with Newsmax. Such enrollees include those technically eligible for Medicare and those receiving benefits despite living in other states, Newsmax reports. Since Braun first took…
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Trump Administration Bolsters Case to End Child Gender Treatment
A group of scientists released a final version of a report that was published in May and ordered by President Donald Trump on the scientific basis of gender treatments for children. The report, which passed scientific peer review, was issued on November 19, 2025, and is now available on the Department of Health and Human…
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New Food Pyramid Emphasizes Whole Foods
On January 7, 2026, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released new dietary guidelines overhauling decades of previous guidance. The old guidelines, stated a USDA fact sheet, “favored corporate interests over common sense, science-driven advice to improve the health of Americans.” The USDA’s press release states, “The new guidelines deliver a clear, common-sense message to…
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Medicare Advantage Popularity Causing ‘Friction’ for Hospitals
Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration has reached as high as 70 to 80 percent in some markets, a hospital administrator tells Becker’s Hospital Review in a December 4, 2025, article, but it is creating “friction” and could lead to more hospitals cancelling MA contracts. MA plans are popular because of the “simplicity and potential cost savings”…
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Medicare Advantage Plans Profit When They Keep Enrollees Healthy – Commentary
The American health care system has two distinguishing characteristics. First, similarly situated individuals pay the same premium, regardless of their medical conditions. Put differently, no one who acquires health insurance ever pays an actuarially fair price. Second, insurers invariably lose money on people who are known to be relatively sick and make money on people…
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Judge Blocks Pilot Program to Improve 340B Accountability
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to block a pilot program aimed at keeping better tabs on the federal 340B hospitals use to receive drug discounts. The pilot was scheduled to begin on January 1. On December 18, U.S. District Judge Lance Walker of the District of Maine issued the order while a…
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AI’s Potential and Challenges in Health Care – New Economic Report
“Medical knowledge is growing so rapidly that only 6 percent of what the average new physician is taught in medical school today will be relevant in ten years,” states a new National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) report, “The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Health Care Costs.” As AI transforms one sector after another,…
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CDC Makes Major Changes to Vaccine Schedule
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) drastically reduced the recommended vaccines on the childhood immunization schedule. Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill announced in a January 5 X post that he updated the schedule to recommend immunization against 11 diseases, down from the 17 that had previously been on the schedule. The total number of…
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