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Away With Provider Taxes
Washington Examiner | May 28, 2025 | Sally C. Pipes

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently published a rule targeting “provider taxes,” a financing gimmick states use to harvest extra Medicaid dollars from the federal government.

Good on the Trump administration. Over the last decade and a half, states have exploited provider taxes and other financing loopholes to push more and more of the cost of Medicaid onto the federal government. Now, Uncle Sam is finally pushing back.
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Tying U.S. Drug Prices To Foreign Markets Risks Innovation And Lives
Forbes | Sally C. Pipes | May 27, 2025

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed what he called “one of the most consequential Executive Orders in our Country’s history.”

The order is essentially an updated version of his administration’s 2020 “Most Favored Nation” policy. It directs pharmaceutical companies to tie the U.S. prices of their drugs to the lower prices that other developed countries pay...

But the economics behind this proposition are much more complicated.
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Don't Take Cutting-Edge Drugs For Granted
Right by the Bay | Sally C. Pipes | May 27, 2025

Here in the United States, as Baker explains, we have unprecedented access to therapies for rare diseases — conditions that affect fewer than 200,000 Americans. That’s thanks to our market-based system that rewards innovation.

By contrast, government-run, single-payer healthcare systems often reject rare disease treatments “because they are inherently expensive to develop and serve very small patient populations.”
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