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 Auditors at OpenTheBooks.com determined that Fauci, who continues to work at age 81, would receive at least $350,000 a year with cost-of-living adjustments.

The Senate’s rejection of the giant Build Back Better (BBB) tax and spending bill also spelled defeat for the measure’s health care provisions, many...

“If instead of throwing good money after bad, we focused on rational reform of existing programs, we might find that the ‘unmet needs’ the Democrats have targeted could be adequately met – without spending any additional taxpayer dollars,”

“Despite the best arguments in support of hospital mergers, creating hospital monopolies does not improve patient outcomes, nor does it decrease health care costs.”

BBB could have provided enough disincentives, that employers would have slashed seven million jobs. Also, social programs under BBB would have made gainful employment less attractive.

“Hospitals are loath to raise nurses’ pay and often would rather hire temporary nursing staffing at much high rates than raise the standard pay to retain nurses already on staff.”

Differing local approaches to the Covid-19 pandemic have led to an uneven recovery across the United States

“When a Medicare beneficiary suffers a stroke, how much does this cost original Medicare?  When a beneficiary with a Medicare Advantage plan suffers a stroke, the federal government has shed a claim to a private insurance company, thus saving taxpayers potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars,”

We have not one, but 50, health care systems, and they are not alike. Without any change in federal law, some states are making radical changes that are lowering costs, increasing quality, and making health care delivery more efficient.

"In economic terms, the flip side of a subsidy is a penalty. If you give a subsidy to people who make one choice, you are effectively imposing a cost on everyone who makes a different choice."