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Cash-Based Support Would Empower Vulnerable to Buy Private Health Insurance, Create More Effective Safety Net
NEW STUDY | Wayne Winegarden
June 20, 2023
Providing cash-based support to the vulnerable to purchase private health insurance would increase access to quality healthcare at roughly the same per enrollee costs as Medicaid programs – finds the latest paper in the Coverage Denied ([link removed]) series released today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute.
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The US health system is not to blame for the decline in our life expectancy
Washington Examiner | Sally Pipes
June 18, 2023
Americans’ life expectancy is at a 20-year low. As a result, the gap in life expectancy between the United States and our global peers is progressively growing wider, according to ([link removed]) a new report in the American Journal of Public Health.
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Merck Fighting for Rights, Market-based Health Care
Newsmax | Sally Pipes
June 19, 2023
Pharmaceutical giant Merck announced ([link removed]) last week that it is taking the federal government to court over the Inflation Reduction Act’s drug pricing reforms. The lawsuit alleges that the law’s Medicare price negotiation program violates some of the most fundamental rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
“This is not ‘negotiation,'” the company says in its official complaint ([link removed]) . “It is tantamount to extortion.”
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