Biden Admin Spurred Higher Drug Medicare Premiums, Fewer Choices

Seniors perusing the offerings during the most recent Medicare Enrollment Period saw that not only were prescription drug plan premiums higher, but their choices...

Popular R&B Artist Spotlights Murky Health Care Pricing

Before voters reelected Donald Trump, a music artist had been promoting a Trump health reform from his first administration – transparency in hospital pricing. Starting...

Biden’s Short-Term Plan Limit Could Face Lawsuit: Panel

The “ping-ponging” of rules on short-term limited duration health insurance (STLDI)is wreaking havoc on underwriting in the insurance markets, said panelists in a discussion...

Texas Doctors Could Lose Licenses for Child Trans Treatments

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking legal action against transgender activist physicians who prescribed transition medications to minors after state law forbade the...

Military Explores Light Therapy for Brain Injuries

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is taking steps to explore how noninvasive, nondrug light therapy can help military members and veterans recover from...

Genetic Data of 15 Million People May Be Up for Sale – Interview

The popular ancestry-tracing company 23andMe may be up for sale, CEO Anne Wojcicki says, putting 15 million customers’ genetic data up for grabs. The...

Gates Faces Dutch Lawsuit over COVID-19 Shots

Billionaire Bill Gates is facing charges in the Netherlands brought by seven people who allege they were harmed by the COVID-19 injections the Bill...

Will Republicans Try Again to Repeal Obamacare?

Now that Donald Trump won the popular and electoral vote and captured majorities in the House and Senate, the prospect of repealing Obamacare is...

Vaccine Document Request Hits a Roadblock

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked a federal judge in Texas to throw out a public information document request by a group...

CBO: Illegal Aliens Are Costing Medicaid Billions

Federal and state spending for medical services for illegal aliens topped $16 billion under “border czar” Kamala Harris, an increase of 124 percent compared...

Trump Must Use His Victory to Fix Health Care – Commentary

By Chad Savage, M.D. With the reelection of Donald Trump and the potential involvement of transformative figures like Elon Musk and Robert Kennedy Jr., the...

Assembly-Line Medicine Weakens Doctor-Patient Relationships, Patients’ Health – Interview

Editor’s Note: On July 31, JAMA Network published the results of a survey that found patients’ trust in doctors and hospitals dropped 31 percentage...

Guidebook Helps Seniors Avoid Costly Mistakes During Medicare Enrollment

Medicare’s annual enrollment period has begun, and a nonprofit policy organization has released a first-ever guidebook to help seniors make decisions they will not...

Courts Order Controversial Program for Estranged Parents

A judge in a child custody matter allowed the forced and unannounced removal of children from their custodial mother so they could enter a...

Pharma Giant Pfizer Launches Health Care Hub

Pfizer’s revenue from pharmaceuticals declined Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is getting into the health care delivery business. The company announced on August 27 the launch of...

Medicare is the Key to Fixing the Doctor Shortage – Commentary

By Mario H. Lopez Today, it can take weeks to see a doctor, and when patients do get in, appointments last about 15 minutes. The...

Election Outcome Might Mean Big Changes in Medicaid

Though it has received scant attention in this year’s presidential campaign, Medicaid, the $600 billion-a-year federal program for lower-income people, could be in for...

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AnneMarie Schieber is a research fellow at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Health Care News, Heartland's monthly newspaper for health care reform.