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Telehealth’s Success During COVID-19 Shows Need to Empower Health Care Innovators
The Times of San Diego | Wayne Winegarden
July 10, 2020
One irony during this pandemic is that America has actually experienced the promise of health care innovation in an important way, namely through telehealth. Telehealth allows patients to talk with their doctors online using videoconferencing platforms. Doctors can see patients, discuss their symptoms, order tests, and even prescribe medication.
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Expand Medicaid? Democrats’ plan would increase waste, fraud and debt
Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
July 12, 2020
Medicaid, which will turn 55 on July 31, has ballooned since its creation. The program initially provided health coverage to low-income individuals and families – and eventually grew to cover the blind, disabled and other vulnerable populations. As of 2018, one of every six dollars of health care spending goes through Medicaid – nearly $600 billion.
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Dr. Henry Miller and Lars Larson Talk COVID Surge and PPE
The Lars Larson Show | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
July 9, 2020
Dr. Henry Miller joins the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show to talk about the latest changes in the coronavirus, or COVID-19, including the developments in the American southwest including steps the public can take to stop the spread of coronavirus and the dwindling number of hospital beds. Miller talks about why COVID-19 could be surging in some parts of the country and recent studies about the most common risks with the coronavirus. Larson and Miller also discuss examples from other countries of populations using facemasks and other equipment related to their mortality rate.
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Dems Want to Use Medicaid to Incinerate Yet More Taxpayer Money
Real Clear Health | Sally C. Pipes
July 10, 2020
The body of research documenting Medicaid’s failures is substantial. For example, a Journal of Health Care study found that children covered by Medicaid who suffer from asthma have much longer hospital stays and worse health outcomes than those on private insurance.
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For Coronavirus, the Name of the Game Is Minimizing the Probability of Infection
Human Events | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
July 9, 2020
With all due respect to Congressman Dr. Green, he doesn’t get it. Six feet of distancing isn’t magic; it’s just a guess about what manageable distance between individuals lowers the probability of transmission to a reasonable level. And even then, we know that when a person shouts, sings, coughs, or sneezes, droplets or aerosols (which contain minuscule particles and stay airborne for long periods) can travel much farther than six feet.
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Reforms Should Empower Healthcare Entrepreneurs Not Bureaucrats
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
July 13, 2020
The government already pays 41-cents of every dollar spent on healthcare, and government regulations and tax subsidies fundamentally influence the remainder. Since government policies drive the current system, it is reasonable to conclude that government failures also drive its problems.
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Will COVID-19 launch an epidemic of cancer?
The Lewiston Sun Journal | Sally C. Pipes
July 12, 2020
As more states see viral outbreaks, many governors will be tempted to follow Gov. Abbott’s example. But COVID-19 is not the only threat to public health. Millions of Americans have put off “elective” medical care in order to comply with state orders that they stay home.
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How Medicines are Sold, Part 2 ([link removed])
PRI | Drug Pricing Video Series
July 2, 2020
In the latest drug pricing video, the Professor and Pete learn how infusion drugs – drugs that you have to go to a doctor’s office, clinic or hospital to take – are sold and how the complex pricing environment encourages the use of these higher cost drugs rather than lower cost alternatives like biosimilars.
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