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California's dysfunctional energy policies make it the leader in dependence on outside energy sources within the United States, importing more electricity than any other state – currently at 32 percent from states in the Northwest and Southwest.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) enacted a rule allowing more flexibility for state governments to create value-based drug purchasing agreements with pharmaceutical companies.

Donald Trump’s version of socialism is in fact not much different from what Republicans have been peddling and presiding over for many decades: duct-taping an unsustainable Social Security system, offering some hybrid private-government medical system, implementing a “conservative” version of educational interventionism, advocating “incentive-friendly” welfare statism, compromising personal and civil liberties in “wars” on drugs, terrorism and various forms of personal behavior not approved of.

Hospitals and insurers consider negotiated rates “trade secrets,” which they are reluctant to disclose. The plaintiffs also said the rule would undermine negotiations between providers and insurers.

The Internal Revenue Service wants to classify direct primary care programs as “health plans,” which would block consumers from paying for such arrangements using health savings accounts.

Critics calling for fundamental change in the American system—those who profess the ideology and policies of “systemic racism,” identity politics, and cancel culture—focus on...

Given the massive influx of stimulus funding for health care and government programs such as Medicare, no one should be surprised about a barrage of new lobbying activity and a surge of activism for single-payer or universal health care.

Average annual health care spending for people with employer-sponsored insurance rose to an all-time high in 2018, according to a recent report.

Legal marijuana continues to compete with its black-market cousin because of the time needed to establish a legitimate marketplace and the taxes on legal marijuana.