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‘Self-funding’ Traditional Medicare Add-Ons – A Fool’s Errand?
Medicare enrollees are wondering if perhaps there might be a third option to traditional fee-for-service Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Shawn McGuyer, a retiree from Texas, is trying to determine if it might be financially advantageous to opt out of Medigap and Medicare Part D and self-fund those benefits throughout retirement. McGuyer, however, is unable to…
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Ohio Senate Overrides Gov. Mike DeWine’s Veto, Bans ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ of Minors
Ohio Senate overrides Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto, bans ‘gender-affirming care’ of minors and men in women’s sports. by Tyler O’Neil The Ohio Senate voted to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of House Bill 68, which will protect minors from experimental transgender treatments euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care” and safeguard fairness in women’s sports. The override…
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Solution to Mississippi’s health care crisis: Repeal CON Laws
Solution to Mississippi’s health care crisis: repeal certificate-of-need laws that limit access to a variety of medical services. By Douglas Carswell Often in politics, it is easier to define a problem than it is to solve it. Remember Barack Obama’s eloquent speech about the need to unite America beyond red states Vs blue states? When Obama…
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Texas AG Sues Drug Makers for Adulterated ADHD Drugs for Children
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing drug manufacturers Pfizer and Tris Pharma for misrepresenting a drug to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) they claimed complied with Food and Drug Administration regulations, that was adulterated. Tris was under contract with Pfizer to manufacture the ADHD drug Quillivant XR for children enrolled in Medicaid. The Texas AG’s…
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Michigan Physicians Call Out Corporate Practice of Medicine
The Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS) is urging State Attorney General Dana Nessel to investigate violations of a state law prohibiting unlicensed corporations from owning medical practices. MSMS sent a five-page letter to Nessel on October 23 stating that private equity groups have used a “series of deceptive legal loopholes” in states, including Michigan, to…
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Republicans Face Challenges on Health Care in 2024 Election
A survey by the progressive Navigator political research group found that three in five American voters view the Affordable Care Act (ACA) favorably, more people trusted the Democratic Party on health care issues, and most voters believe a Republican president would repeal Obamacare. Navigator sampled 1,000 registered voters online from November 30 to December 4,…
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‘March-in” Policy Threatens Research for Rare Disease Treatment
The federal government is moving forward with controlling drug costs by approving “march-in” authority on drug pricing. The Biden administration announced on December 7 that it would be directing government entities to employ the “march-in” clause under the Patent and Trademark Act Amendments, also called the Bayh-Dole Act, to curb the pricing of certain medications.…
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Fetal Tissue Experiments Under Federal Investigation
The alleged illegal harvesting of body parts from late-term aborted babies at the University of Pittsburgh (UP) is at the center of a two-year-old investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), recently obtained emails confirm. OIG investigators are said to be focusing on lab experiments conducted from…
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Racial Quotas for State Medical Boards Under Fire
The nonprofit organization Do No Harm is challenging a 35-year-old law in Tennessee that requires the governor to appoint members to state licensing boards based on racial quotas in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division. The complaint claims Tenn. Code 8-1-111 and 63-3-103 (b) violate…
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Florida Surgeon General Calls for Halt to COVID-19 Shots
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo called for a halt in the use of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA shots on January 3, after the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not respond to his questions on reports of DNA plasmid contaminants and oncogenic SV40 promoter genes, stated…
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