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Let’s Make It Perfectly Clear

What to Know: Price transparency—not a Medicare-for-All scheme—would lower health care costs, says patient advocate Cynthia Fisher.

The TPPF Take: The more transparency, the better.

“In a free market, price is considered to be like the central nervous system,” says TPPF’s David Balat. “It responds with great immediacy to market forces, and adjusts to fluctuations in supply and demand. Without price transparency, healthcare delivery market has, in effect, had its central nervous system removed. Restoring transparency will help restore the heart of health care, which is the doctor and patient relationship.”

Brexit Advantage

What to Know: A consequence of Britain’s exit from the European Union could be lower energy prices, one analyst says—in a country in which many elderly suffer from energy poverty and cold winters.

The TPPF Take: Britain’s energy poverty is created by short-sighted government policies, many pushed by the EU, that drive up energy prices and disproportionately affect the poor.

“Energy poverty shortens life spans and drastically increases the burdens on families, and particularly women,” says TPPF’s Katie Tahuahua. “Governments shouldn’t make life harder by making energy – and everything produced with energy—more expensive.”

Getting a Raise

What to Know: Wages are rising at a faster rate than mortgages, for the first time since the early 1970s.

The TPPF Take: Rising wages are a happy effect of a booming economy.

“The current economic expansion is 10 years and five months old and showing little signs of ending,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “Low unemployment means that employers are sometimes struggling to find workers, particularly in skilled positions. The result is higher wages as employers compete for employees.”