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Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Budget Proposes Biggest Health-Care Expansion Since Obamacare

By Philip Klein August 9, 2021

The budget resolution, enabled by Republicans, would mean the largest expansion of government in the health care arena since Obamacare.

Democrats’ Reckless Medicare Expansion

By Philip Klein July 15, 2021

Instead of fixing our broken entitlements, Democrats want to make them more generous than socialist Canada’s.

With Democrats Pushing to Expand Medicare, Trustees Report Is over Three Months Late

By Philip Klein July 14, 2021

Democrats are now pushing to expand the financially-troubled Medicare program. Unfortunately, the annual Trustees report on its finances is more than three months overdue.

Ilhan Omar vs. Math

By Philip Klein May 17, 2021

Even if we were to abolish the Pentagon and zero out defense spending, it wouldn’t even cover one-sixth of the cost of sustaining a Medicare for All system.

How a ‘Public Option’ Could Save Money

By Robert VerBruggen May 5, 2021

To save money, a ‘public option’ would need to set payment rates by fiat and force health-care providers to take them.

The Tradeoffs of Rigging Medicare Drug Prices That Biden Ignored

By Philip Klein April 29, 2021

Extracting significant savings by reducing drug prices would limit innovation, the CBO concluded.

The Casualties of ‘Moral Imperatives’

By Casey B. Mulligan April 12, 2021

Prohibiting profit in health care would leave people suffering from conditions that would have been alleviated or cured by private-sector innovation.

Don’t Cut Seniors’ Drug Coverage to Fund Another Spending Spree

By Chris Pope March 29, 2021

Cutting Medicare payments for prescription drugs would hurt seniors and slow drug development in the process.

PSA: We’re Still Going Bankrupt

By Robert VerBruggen March 23, 2021

Entitlement trust funds are running out and the debt is exploding.