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What's So Scary About Medicare Reform?
Newsmax | June 20, 2025 | Sally C. Pipes

One of the biggest questions surrounding Senate Republicans’ version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act concerns the fate of Medicare. Earlier this month, GOP lawmakers were reportedly considering reforms aimed at reducing waste, fraud and abuse in the entitlement as a way to deliver savings for taxpayers.

But as the bill has taken shape in the last few days, Senate Republicans appear to have lost their appetite for tightening the federal purse strings for Medicare.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide Is A Bigger Problem Than We Realize
Forbes | Sally C. Pipes | June 23, 2025

Dovie Eisner was born with a rare genetic condition called nemaline myopathy. He requires a wheelchair and has a host of other health problems. Last year at one point, he stopped breathing, passed out on the street, and was taken to the emergency room.

“I was alive—thanks to the determination of law enforcers and local medical personnel to keep me that way,” Eisner wrote recently in UnHerd. But, he warns, a law being considered in his home state of New York “threatens to undo this presumption in favour of lifesaving” that motivated first responders to keep him alive.

The bill, called the Medical Aid in Dying Act, would allow mentally competent adults with six months or less to live “to obtain a prescription that would put them to sleep and peacefully end their lives.”
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Price Controls On Doctors Are Costing Patients Dearly
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden | June 23, 2025

Just like the December 2024 continuing resolution, the current budget reconciliation bill fails to address the problem of Medicare reimbursing physicians at below market rates.

Without a fix, the inevitable consequences will be worsening doctor shortages, declining healthcare quality, higher overall healthcare spending, and the accelerated loss of independent practices.
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