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House's New Healthcare Reform Drags Medical Pricing To Sunlight
Newsmax | January 3, 2024 | Sally Pipes

One of the most glaring deficiencies in America’s healthcare system is its lack of price transparency. For too long, the bottom-line price of everything from prescription drugs to MRI scans and in-patient medical procedures has remained a mystery to most consumers.

But that might be about to change. In December, the House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Lower Costs, More Transparency Act ([link removed]) by a 320-71 margin. The measure ([link removed]) aims to make the prices of a range of treatments and healthcare services far more accessible to patients.

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Dear Governor's: Just Say 'No' To Medicaid Expansion
Forbes | Sally Pipes | January 8, 2024

Today, 40 states and the District of Columbia ([link removed]) have taken advantage of the Affordable Care Act’s move to open the program to able-bodied Americans with incomes below 138% of the federal poverty level. Even Republican-led states like North Carolina have buckled under the expansion wave. And there’s mounting pressure for the 10 holdouts to follow suit.

A new paper ([link removed]) from the Paragon Health Institute makes it clear that those 10 states should continue to resist.

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How Obamacare tax credits spike premiums
Boston Herald | Sally Pipes | December 29, 2023

The pursuit of profit in a competitive market is the driver of economic growth and innovation. But when government dictates the specifications for the product that can be sold — in this case, the details of insurance coverage — and then effectively guarantees a profit for compliance, the result isn’t competition and better service but entrenched rent-seekers protecting their turf from competitors. The bigger the subsidies for “premiums,” the greater the entrenchment.

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