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Obamacare’s 11th Anniversary Is Nothing to Celebrate
Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
March 24, 2021
The cost of a plan through Obamacare’s exchanges has been growing for years. Since 2014, the first year the marketplaces were open, average premiums on the federal HealthCare.gov exchange have increased more than 65 percent. Between 2013—the year before the law went into effect—and 2017, the average individual market premium doubled.
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Conservatives Have Healthcare Ideas, Too
Forbes.com | Sally C. Pipes
March 29, 2021
. . . There are plenty of ideas from the right for healthcare reform. An array of conservative activists, lawmakers, and free-market thinkers have been advancing a vision for healthcare policy that would reduce costs and expand consumer choice. Republicans would be wise to start talking about them.
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Medicare-X deserves a third strike
The Washington Times | Sally C. Pipes
March 25, 2021
In 2019, Medicare paid 87 cents for every dollar of care provided by U.S. hospitals, according to an analysis from the American Hospital Association. Medicaid did only slightly better, remitting just 90 cents for every dollar of care. All told, the two programs underpaid hospitals by more than $75 billion that year.
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Russia's Anti-Vaccine Propaganda is Tantamount to a Declaration of War
The Washington Times | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
March 25, 2021
A study published by academics in 2018, “Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate,” found that thousands of Russian social media accounts were spreading anti-vaccine messaging. From an examination of almost two million tweets posted between 2014 and 2017, the researchers found that Russian troll accounts were significantly more likely to tweet about vaccination than were Twitter users generally. They noted that Russian tweets like, “Apparently only the elite get ‘clean’ #vaccines. And what do we, normal ppl, get?!” seem intended to exacerbate socioeconomic tensions in the United States.
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Let health care workers treat patients in any state
The Boston Herald | Sally C. Pipes
March 26, 2021
Of course, not all doctors may want to move. And many specialists are best suited to urban areas or places with academic medical centers, where they’ll have the opportunity to treat the greatest number of patients. But telehealth technologies could bring them to rural areas. A heart disease patient in rural West Virginia, for example, could visit a local clinic and have a specialist in Pittsburgh check his vital signs and imaging results remotely.
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