Time to end bad Medicaid policies
 
Washington Examiner | Sally Pipes
December 22, 2022

Lawmakers in Congress have unveiled their year-end omnibus $1.7 trillion spending bill. They’re hoping to pass it by the end of the week. The draft text comes after weeks of wrangling over how to fund certain COVID-era healthcare policies after July, when the public health emergency is finally expected to expire.

Among them is a Medicaid policy that has bloated the entitlement and spent huge sums on people who should not be eligible for coverage according to the program’s own rules.


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Price Controls, Publicly Funded Insurance Won't Deliver Value 
 
Newsmax | Sally Pipes
December 27, 2022

On Dec. 14, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (cms.gov) released their latest estimate of the country’s annual healthcare tab.

For the second straight year, U.S. healthcare spending topped $4 trillion. In 2021, health spending accounted for more than 18% of U.S. GDP.


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