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Health Care Leaders Gather to Urge Use of ‘Free-Market Force’
Opinion -Physicians, lawmakers, and insurers summoned the 'force' to carve out free-market solutions to the dark side of health care policy. -
Lawmakers Clarify Appeals Process for Patients with ‘Step Therapy’ Insurance
Opinion -States have passed legislation reinforcing insurers' right to refuse to pay for patients' drugs and patients' ability to appeal insurers' decisions. -
States Consider Authorizing Dental Therapy to Expand Access
Opinion -Dental therapists practice in more than 50 countries, yet all but four states prevent these oral care equivalent of physician assistants from treating patients. -
$8 Billion, 10-Year Deficit Forecast for Proposed Single-Payer ColoradoCare
Opinion -The single-payer health care system Colorado voters may adopt on November 8 will start out millions of dollars in the hole and only get deeper, a study says. -
43 States Flunk Health Care Price Transparency Test
Opinion -A report card published by organizations favoring state-mandated all-payer claims databases gives most states an "F" for price transparency in health care. -
Medicaid Expansion Clash Looms for Kansas Governor, Lawmakers
Opinion -Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) appears prepared to hold the line against Medicaid expansion efforts by a new legislature in 2017. -
House Bill Would Recover Unspent Obamacare Funds from Failed State Exchanges
Opinion -States that took federal funds to build Obamacare exchanges, and failed, would have to give Congress a reckoning and taxpayers a refund. -
Doctors Increasingly Prescribe Medical Marijuana for Pain Relief
Opinion -In states where medical marijuana is legal, doctors are prescribing fewer FDA-approved drugs for ailments treatable by marijuana. -
Coloradans to Vote on Whether to Impose Statewide Single-Payer Health Care
Opinion -ColoradoCare, a single-payer health care system, is a ballot proposal on which Coloradans will vote this November. Doctors and policy experts say voters should reject it. -
Ohio to Require Medical Provider Price Transparency in 2017
Opinion -In January 2017, a law will take effect requiring health care providers to provide patients with written estimates of charges, the portion insurers will pay, and the patient's portion, in most cases. -
Policy Diagnosis: A Telemedicine Pioneer and the New Health Care Frontier
Opinion -While on call to serve patients in six states by telemedicine, Dr. Jeffrey English explained how telehealth is the new frontier in medicine. -
Government Policies May Drive Doctor Shortages in Unhealthiest States
Opinion -State medical boards, government-protected monopolies, and jackpot juries could be keeping doctors out of Arkansas and Mississippi. -
Study: Louisiana Trails South, Nation in Emergency Health Crisis Readiness
Opinion -The state scored below average in all six of the study's categories rating preparedness to deal with a public health crisis. -
Percentage of Privately Insured Adults Is Same as Before Obamacare, CDC Finds
Opinion -The Affordable Care Act has prompted people to alternate between coverage by Medicaid and private insurance. -
Elder Care Facilities Brace for $15 Minimum Wage Impact
Opinion -Retirement and nursing homes in cities with a $15 minimum wage are forced to think twice about the costs of the care they provide. -
Britain Faces Big Decision on Cross-Border Competition Affecting Health Care Providers
Opinion -How the 'Brexit' will affect patient care in the United Kingdom hinges on domestic immigration policy and pending negotiations with the European Union. -
Letter: Health Care ‘Sharing’ Model Trumps ‘Insurance’
Opinion -Dr. John Hunt, chief medical officer of Liberty Healthshare, draws sharp distinctions between health care sharing ministries and health insurers. -
Consumer Coalition Urges Congress to Deny Obama Tax Raid of Medicare Part D
Opinion -A coalition of 26 groups have asked Congress not to alter what they view as one of Medicare's lone successes. -
Lawmakers, Courts May Scrap Texas Telemedicine Rule Requiring Initial In-Person Visit
Opinion -Telehealth advocates in Texas are developing legislative proposals to increase patient access to telemedicine. -
FDA Readies Ban on Effective Shock Treatment for Self-Injuring Autistic Patients
Opinion -A Harvard prof and father of an self-harming autistic child says ideology is driving FDA to ban his son's only effective treatment. -
Kentuckians Could Earn $500 Cash Bonus for Exiting Medicaid, If CMS Approves
Opinion -Kentucky's proposed Medicaid reform includes an incentive for recipients to exit the government health care program. -
Ohio Offers to Match Medicaid Participants’ HSA Contributions 10 to 1—or Disenroll Them
Opinion -Medicaid recipients would pay no more than $99 per year into a state-funded HSA and roll unspent HSA funds into a "Bridge Account" to ease transition to commercial insurance. -
Physicians Flock to Summit on Innovative Direct Primary Care Model
Opinion -Free-market-minded physicians and policy analysts converged on Kansas City, Missouri to advance patient-centered health care reforms, as many prepare for a similar October summit. -
Georgia Will Decide ‘Private Option’ Medicaid Expansion in 2017 Session
Opinion -The chair of the Georgia Senate Health and Human Services Committee indicates she will reconsider Medicaid expansion and meets resistance from free-market health care reformers.