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Trump Is Right: Housing Isn't Healthcare
Washington Examiner | April 21, 2025| Sally C. Pipes

The Trump administration shut off federal funding through Medicaid for non-healthcare-related services such as housekeeping, groceries, and internet earlier this month. It’s about time.

Medicaid exists to provide health benefits to the nation’s neediest, not to subsidize a laundry list of liberal priorities. Over the last two decades, it has increasingly served as a slush fund for high-spending states.
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Drug Company Profits Don't Threaten Lives; Price Controls Do
Washington Times | Sally C. Pipes | April 23, 2025

More than 4 in 5 Americans blame the pharmaceutical industry’s profits for the high prices of prescription drugs. It’s little wonder, then, that roughly the same share supports placing price controls on prescription drugs through Medicare.

The logic is straight out of Robin Hood. Our leaders should take from the “rich” drug companies and give to the “poor” patients.

This line of reasoning is at odds with what is happening in the pharmaceutical market. A new report from consulting firm IQVIA says drug companies have been spending a massive and growing portion of their revenue on inventing new medicines.
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Deregulation Is The Path To Greater Pharmaceutical Innovation
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden | April 21, 2025

Surveys confirm that most Americans recognize the value of prescription drugs. But the same surveys also show that Americans are worried that they will be unable to afford needed medicines.

These conflicting feelings exemplify the inherent tension when it comes to prescription drugs – how do we incentivize innovation to help patients who lack efficacious treatments while also promoting greater affordability for medicines today?

Too often, proposals get this balance between innovation and affordability wrong.
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