Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute.
The following is an open letter from 68 leaders participating in the Health Policy Consensus Group. The full list of signatories follows the letter.
Democrats in Congress have proposed a COVID-19 relief bill that includes provisions to dramatically increase government subsidies for health care coverage for millions of people who already have insurance while further expanding government control over health care.
The legislation would increase for more than two years government payments to insurance companies via the Affordable Care Act by:
Removing even the de minimis premium payments required of people earning less than 150% of the federal poverty level.
CEI Joins Coalition Letter Opposed to Most Favored Nation Drug Pricing Final Rule
Introduction
On behalf of the undersigned federal and state-based organizations, we write to express our opposition to the interim final rule to implement the Most Favored Nation (MFN) Model under section 1115A of the Social Security Act. We request you withdraw the rule.
The rule forces physicians, patients, and providers into a mandatory demonstration under the Obamacare Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and ties the prices paid for medicines in Medicare Part B to the prices in foreign countries with socialized health care systems.
The proposal imports foreign price controls into America’s healthcare system. This will harm medical innovation and the development of new medicines. It will threaten high-paying American manufacturing jobs and do nothing to stop foreign freeloading. Instead, it will move the United States closer to a system of government-controlled healthcare.
Warning: Biden would boost pay but blow up small business
Thursday, January 21, 2021 |
Chris Woodward, Billy Davis (OneNewsNow.com)
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President Joe Biden will urge the Democrat-controlled Congress to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, a push that is alarming some economists and lawmakers, and small business owners already struggling during the pandemic.
The current minimum wage is $7.25, which has remained unchanged for more than a decade since it was bumped up in July of 2009.
According to CNBC, the business news outlet, Biden is including the $15-per-hour push in the America Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion aid package that promises to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
Will Trump s whole system get tossed?
Monday, January 11, 2021 |
Chris Woodward (OneNewsNow.com)
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As Joe Biden s supporters push for him to make changes as president, a resident scholar for a think tank founded to research, develop, and promote innovative and non-partisan solutions to today s public policy problems says the Democrat would do well to retain some of the Trump administration s policies.
Merrill Matthews, Ph.D. of the Texas-based Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) says the biggest thing that should be retained is the tax reform legislation that passed in December 2017. That has been the big spur in the economy and why we got such good growth in the economy over the last few years, he notes.
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