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Here’s the Conservative Plan to Improve Health Care

WEBCongressional Republicans, who abandoned efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare more than a year ago, are weeks away from a midterm election in which …

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Studies Show: Medicaid Patients Have Worse Access and …

WEBAbstract: Academic literature has consistently illustrated that Medicaid patients—adults and children—have inferior access to health care, and notably poorer …

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Fairness in Our Healthcare System The Heritage Foundation

WEBThe three pillars of a patient-centered approach to providing access to high quality care at sustainable cost are 1) expanded personal choice, 2) personal selection …

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Medicaid Provides Poor Quality Care: What the Research Shows

WEBFor cerebral artery occlusion, the respective length of hospital stay for individuals on Medicaid, the uninsured, and the privately insured are 6.9 days, 6.2 days, …

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Direct Primary Care: Update and Road Map for Patient-Centered …

WEBInnovative American physicians have developed an alternative: Direct primary care (DPC) is an innovative health care delivery model in which doctors …

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COVID-19 and Quality Care: How Medicare Advantage Performed

WEBThe impact of COVID-19 on patients is determined by several variables, including immune strength, the presence of comorbidities, and age. REF In terms of …

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Premiums, Choices, Deductibles, Care Access, and Government …

WEBThis year marks 11 years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—also known as Obamacare—and seven years since its key elements took effect. …

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Competitive Markets in Health Care: The Next Revolution

WEBIn a truly competitive market, consumers would have more options, and providers would be forced to deliver low-cost, high-quality care. With the right reforms, the health care …

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How Congress Can Help Open Up America’s Healthcare Markets

WEBA 2022 study conducted for the American Medical Association found that commercial markets were highly concentrated in 75% of the nation’s MSAs, and in more …

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Expanding Medicaid: The Real Costs to the States

WEBJust the state share of administrative costs for the benefit expansion is projected to be $9.6 billion for FY 2014 to FY 2019 under the Senate bill and $14 billion …

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Medicare’s Demographic Challenge—and the Urgent Need for …

WEBMedicare spending is projected to rise significantly over the next 25 years as the baby boomers enroll in the program. Under the most realistic scenario, the Medicare …

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Obamacare’s Impact on Doctors—An Update

WEBObamacare also temporarily increases Medicaid payment for primary care physicians to no less than 100 percent of the Medicare payment rates for their services …

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The Success of Medicare Advantage Plans: What Seniors Should …

WEBMedicare Plus Choice was compromised from the start. Governed by a new and very different system of financing that capped Medicare payments to health care …

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A Policymaker's Guide to Mental Illness The Heritage Foundation

WEBA Policymaker's Guide to Mental Illness. March 7, 2002 About an hour read. Timothy Kelly. Mental illness is one of the most complex and frustrating health care …

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The Top Ten Healthcare Amendments The Heritage Foundation

WEBPresident Obama and Democrats in Congress are readying a procedure known as reconciliation to railroad Obamacare through Congress. This abuse of process …

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The McCain Health Care Plan: More Power to Families

WEBUnder the McCain proposal, every family would receive a $5,000 tax credit and every individual would receive $2,500 tax credit to offset the costs of health …

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WHO Pandemic Treaty Remains Fatally Flawed

WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic exposed the inability of the current international health architecture, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), to detect and help …

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The WHO Pandemic Treaty Fails Again The Heritage Foundation

WEBIn the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a process to update the International Health Regulations (IHR) and …

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Edmund Haislmaier The Heritage Foundation

WEBAn expert in health care policy and markets at The Heritage Foundation, Edmund F. Haislmaier frequently is asked to help lawmakers design and draft specific …

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