Canada’s Health Care Is Abysmal. Why Would We Copy It?
Americans have come down with single-payer fever. A whole 59% now back a national health plan, according to a March 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll—way up from the 33% reported…
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Will California Fail Financially Without Single-Payer Health Care? Candidates for Governor Disagree
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the frontrunner for California governor says he “doesn’t see an alternative” to a taxpayer-financed single-payer health care system run by state government. If California doesn’t drastically…
Setting Prices for CA Private Insurers: Six Insights on AB3087
A new California bill would allow the state to set prices for hospital stays, physician visits and other healthcare procedures covered by commercial insurers, the LA Times reports. Here are…
CA Price Control Bill Figures to Make a Bad Situation Worse
A textbook case of big government compounding its blunders. by Hunt Lawrence and Daniel J. Flynn California Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) introduced a bill to control healthcare costs in the…
Trump Administration Announces New Proposed Rules for Association Health Plans
On Thursday, the Trump administration released new proposed rules to carry out an executive order the President signed in October expanding association health plans to self-employed individuals and small businesses.…
Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care
The United States spends almost twice as much on health care, as a percentage of its economy, as other advanced industrialized countries — totaling $3.3 trillion, or 17.9 percent of…