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Corporate Medicine, Physician Licensure a Bad Deal for Patients
Devin Herrick, Ph.D. ([email protected]) is a health care economist. Physician licensure has created a cartel—there, I said it out loud. The right to practice medicine has high barriers to entry, both in terms of high standards and high costs. It takes seven to 11 years beyond college to train a new physician, but the process begins…
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New Mexico Bill Would Fund DEI Program to Combat Healthcare Shortage
A New Mexico bill advancing in the House aims to address a major healthcare worker shortage by giving $1.1 million to a university diversity, equity, and inclusion program. The House Health and Human Services Committee voted 9-1 in favor of House Bill 35, sponsored by Democrat state Reps. Pamelya Herndon and Cristina Parajon, on Jan. 23.…
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Kansas Governor Makes Another Attempt to Expand Medicaid
Kansas may become the 42nd state in the nation to expand its Medicaid program. Gov. Laura Kelly (D) proposed the Cutting Healthcare Costs for All Kansans Act on January 17. The Republican-led legislature is poised to reject her bill after leadership in December gave a thumbs-down on expansion. North Carolina became the most recent state…
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Congress Moves to Allow Inpatient Drug Addiction Care Under Medicaid
For the first time, states would have the option to provide inpatient care for drug addiction in mental hospitals for 30 days under Medicaid without seeking a waiver, under the Support for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4531) passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in a vote of 386 to 37, on December…
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Illegal Aliens Get Free Health Care in California
California has set another milestone this year by becoming the first state to offer taxpayer-funded health insurance for all undocumented immigrants. Now, regardless of age, all undocumented immigrants in the Golden State qualify for Medi-Cal, the state’s version of the federal Medicaid program for American citizens with low incomes. As a result, an additional 700,000…
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FDA Green Lights Florida’s Canadian Drug Import Program
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Florida’s plan to import drugs from Canada, a first for the agency that could save patients millions of dollars, on January 5. However, the program limits access to individuals enrolled in certain state programs run by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, the Department of Children and…
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Physicians Urge Congress to Pull the COVID Shots
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) held a hearing on the injuries associated with the COVID-19 shots over the past three years, on January 12. Johnson, and Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Warren Davidson (R-OH), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) discussed the systems, agencies, and individuals responsible for the flawed…
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Health Insurance Without Health Care – Commentary
One reason the United States spends more on health care than other countries is that we are obsessed with health insurance instead of health care. When the British National Health Service or the Canadian Medicare system spends additional money, they spend it employing doctors, building hospitals, or buying medical equipment. When the U.S. government spends…
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‘I Couldn’t Afford It’—Olympic Champion Mary Lou Retton on Health Insurance
Gymnast Mary Lou Retton, one of the most charismatic Olympic gold medalists of all time, narrowly escaped death from a rare form of pneumonia last fall, only to be saddled with hospital bills she says she cannot afford to pay. Retton, known as “America’s sweetheart” after her stunning performance in the 1984 Olympic Games at…
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