Why is Medicaid still treating COVID-19 as a public health emergency?
 
Washington Examiner | Sally Pipes
May 17, 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it would stop tracking new cases. In other words, the pandemic is largely behind us. Yet Medicaid is still covering over-the-counter COVID-19 tests for beneficiaries free of charge. That makes little sense. No other payor is under the same obligation. Provisions requiring Medicare and private insurers to cover up to eight at-home tests per month for free expired along with the public health emergency.


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Wayne Winegarden joins NTD News to discuss why older Americans are struggling to pay for medicine
 
NTD News | Wayne Winegarden
May 22, 2023

A new report revealed that older Americans are struggling to pay for their medications. Jama Network Open released the report on Thursday that 20 percent of adults over age 65 chose to avoid taking their medicine or took less than recommended due to price concerns. In 2016, that number was about 14 percent according to the journal Medical Care. NTD spoke with Wayne Winegarden, senior fellow in Business and Economics at the Pacific Research Institute, for analysis.


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In defense of pandemic profits
 
News-Press | Sally Pipes
May 21, 2023

The price of a COVID-19 shot will soon go up. The federal public health emergency ended this month, and the government will stop providing COVID vaccines to all Americans free of charge.


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Gov't Undermines Search for Heart Disease Treatments
 
Newsmax | Sally Pipes
May 22, 2023

Heart disease is already America’s leading cause of death, claiming roughly 700,000 lives per year. Add to that potentially increased risk among the millions and millions of Americans who have had COVID, and the need for more investment in the research and development of novel drugs is clear.


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