According to its supporters, a primary benefit of Obamacare is protecting people who enter the individual market with pre-existing conditions. Yet people who leave an employer plan and shop for insurance in the individual market today will face three unpleasant surprises: higher premiums, higher out-of-pocket costs, and more limited access to care than a typical employer plan provides.

The Cuban plan is similar to an idea once proposed by Milton Friedman and later by Harvard economist Martin Feldstein. In a nutshell, people would be responsible for health bills up to a certain percent of their income, and government would pay everything above that

Looking at COVID-19 protection policies from an economic rather than an emotional perspective allows policymakers to see how limited resources can be used to achieve the greatest common good.

To make Covid avoidance measures worthwhile, the student would have to value his time at $13,600 an hour!

People are more careful when spending their own money than when spending someone else’s money. Second, virtually all the patient-pleasing innovations that have occurred in recent years are for services people buy with their own money. Third, when patients are spending their own money, they get the full benefits and bear the full costs of their own decisions."

Trump’s most important domestic policy accomplishments were in the area of deregulation. And no industry was more impactfully deregulated than health care. Trump got a lot of things right.

Ten reasons why short-term health insurance plans make sense for healthy people.

We have been liberating doctors, nurses, drug manufacturers, test makers, makers of personal protective equipment, etc. to do things that were illegal only a few months ago."

This new partnership could not have come at a better time. Polls consistently show that health care is the number one issue with American voters. So, the need to inform candidates and the public about health care policy choices in this election year has never been greater. HCN is ideally positioned to do that.

Polls consistently show that health care is the number one issue with American voters. So, the need to inform candidates and the public about health care policy choices in this election year has never been greater. HCN is ideally positioned to do that.