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Obamacare Is Killing Small Business. Here's The Solution.
Forbes | April 29, 2025 | Sally C. Pipes

Obamacare was back on trial this month, as the U.S. Supreme Court heard a challenge about the constitutionality of the panel that determines which preventive care services health plans must cover.

According to the Commonwealth Fund, “The case has consequences for the Affordable Care Act’s guarantee of coverage for a wide range of free preventive care.”

Preventive care is not free, even if Obamacare attempts to paint it as such. We all pay for mandated benefits in the form of higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs. And a new report from the JPMorganChase Institute shows that small employers are increasingly responding to the rising cost of health insurance by dropping it altogether.
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Banning mRNA Vaccines Would Stop Emerging Cancer Treatments
Idaho Statesman | Sally C. Pipes | April 29, 2025

Several states have effectively declared war on medical progress.

Lawmakers in Iowa, Montana, Idaho, Texas and Kentucky introduced bills that would ban or restrict vaccines that use messenger RNA, or mRNA, technology — despite its immense potential for treating and even preventing some of the most vexing diseases known to man.

These legislative efforts are massive missteps.
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Medicaid Can't Survive Without Spending Cuts
Orange County Register | Sally C. Pipes | April 30, 2025

Congressional Republicans are trying to figure out what to do with Medicaid. Nearly 80 million Americans get health coverage through the entitlement. In California, one in three residents has Medi-Cal, the Golden State’s version of Medicaid.

Congress will have to rein in the program at some point. Spending on the entitlement has roughly doubled each of the last five decades. Enrollment is 7.6 million people higher today than it was at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lawmakers must find ways to scale back Medicaid. They can start by returning it to its original intent: providing health coverage to vulnerable people who cannot provide for themselves.
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