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Texas Squares Off with CMS over Medicaid Funding
Texas and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are locking horns over what Lone Star State officials say is CMS’s double standard when it comes to states that have not participated in Medicaid expansion. Along with Florida and Missouri, Texas was targeted by CMS last year for audits and other enforcement actions as…
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The Latest Surprise Charge on Medical Bills—Facility Fees – Commentary
“Surprise, surprise, surprise!”—as Gomer Pyle was fond of saying. There’s yet another surprise medical bill scam that most patients probably do not know about. It is hospital-affiliated urgent care centers that are billed as hospital outpatient departments. I often tell the story of the time my wife almost got a CT scan at a hospital…
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FDA Hid COVID Shot Side Effects—Congressional Report
A congressional investigation has found evidence the Biden administration pressured drug regulators to cut corners in authorizing COVID-19 shots and boosters. An interim staff report by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust concluded the Biden administration “pressured the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to go beyond its…
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How to Spend Billions of Dollars and Get Nothing in Return – Interview
Priceless – Curing the Healthcare Crisis (Updated Second Edition), by John C. Goodman, Independent Institute, 392 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1-59-813395-0, $28.95, amazon.com (Hardcover) John C. Goodman, co-publisher of Health Care News, known as the “father of health savings accounts,” is releasing a second edition of his 2012 groundbreaking book, Priceless – Curing the Healthcare Crisis.…
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Georgia Medicaid Work Program Stays Afloat, One Year Out
Georgia is the only state that requires some able-bodied adults to work to qualify for Medicaid, in a program that has reached its one-year anniversary, despite the opposition of the Biden administration. Under the Trump administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved waivers allowing states to condition Medicaid benefits for nondisabled adults…
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Fixing Social Problems to Improve Health a Waste of Time, Money—Study
Research supporting the Biden administration’s favored “social determinants of health” theory of “health equity” is flimsy, according to a study from the Manhattan Institute. The doctrine is being pushed through Medicaid. In February, Vox reported that six states will be part of a pilot program providing six months of rental assistance to Medicaid enrollees. On…
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Family Estrangement Therapy Is a New Treatment Trend
A mental health crisis in adolescents and young adults that has been growing since the COVID-19 pandemic is leading to estrangement from family members on the recommendation of licensed mental health professionals. Online therapists, in particular, are encouraging this social response to mental distress. The New York Times profiled a college student who disengaged from her parents…
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Project 2025 Faces Backlash
The national Democratic Party and the media have focused their attention on a conservative plan for America’s future developed by the Heritage Foundation. Project 2025 is a program focused on policy recommendations, and recruitment and training of personnel, for a potential Republican presidential administration. The project includes a policy document, Mandate for Leadership, which the…
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Appeals Court Rules Physicians Can Assert Their First Amendment Rights
A federal appeals court ruled physicians have standing to sue specialty boards that threaten their constitutionally protected speech, in one of several cases alleging censorship. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit remanded to a district court a lawsuit by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) that alleges federal agencies and…
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Biden, Trump Agree on Alternative to Employer Health Plans
President Joe Biden announced his decision to withdraw from consideration as a candidate for president, voicing his support for Vice President Kamala Harris to be nominated by the Democratic Party instead. As Biden’s time as president winds down, distinctions are drawn between the policies his administration enacted and those implemented during the term of his…
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