PRI's Focus on Health Care
View this email in your browser ([link removed])
[link removed]
Generous Obamacare Subsidies Expire At The End Of The Year. That's A Good Thing.
Forbes | Sally Pipes
June 6, 2022
At the end of the year, the generous subsidies for health insurance purchased through Obamacare’s exchanges that were enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan Act last March are set to expire ([link removed]) . People may start receiving notices ([link removed]) that their premiums are increasing in October, just a few weeks before this fall’s midterm elections.
Read more. . . ([link removed])
Single-Payer 'Medicare for All' Would Inflate Americans' Healthcare Bills
Times of San Diego | Sally Pipes
June 7, 2022
Inflation is ripping through every sector of the U.S. economy. But there’s one curious exception: healthcare.
The cost of medical care is up 3.5% in the last year. The overall inflation rate, by contrast, is nearly two-and-a-half times higher — 8.3%.
Read more . . . ([link removed])
Let's Not Be So Quick to Lower Medicare Eligibility Age
Newsmax | Sally Pipes
June 6, 2022
A new report ([link removed]) from the Congressional Budget Office takes a close look at one of the most wasteful and unnecessary healthcare proposals on the Democratic agenda — reducing Medicare’s eligibility age to 60.
Joe Biden endorsed the idea ([link removed]) as a candidate for president. But it’s never made much sense. Medicare’s Part A hospital insurance trust fund is already on the cusp of insolvency. Expanding it would saddle taxpayers with immense new costs.
Read more. . . ([link removed])
============================================================
** ([link removed])
** ([link removed])
** ([link removed])
** ([link removed])
** ([link removed])
** ([link removed])
Copyright © 2022 *Pacific Research Institute*, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website.
Our mailing address is:
P.O. Box 60485 | Pasadena, CA 91116
Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can ** update your preferences ([link removed])
or ** unsubscribe from this list ([link removed])
.
