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Right On Healthcare
WebRight on Health Care is an initiative to ensure every American is in charge of their own individual or family medical decisions. When the insurance companies and the government are in control, the result is always higher costs, less access, lower quality, and worse results. To develop an effective system that prioritizes the needs of
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A proven way for Texas lawmakers to improve primary health care …
WebThe continued decline in health providers comes while demand for basic primary care is growing. This leaves Texas’ leaders and lawmakers in need of a solution. One proven legislative solution, implemented in 22 other states and the District of Columbia, is to use what we already have but cannot fully utilize: our own advanced practice
Rising health care reformer charts a path for young professionals …
WebAmerica needs health care innovation and principled policy reform more than ever. Rising costs, sicker patients, and doctor shortages plague an overburdened and needlessly complicated system. Patients fear rising insurance premiums and astronomical medical bills. Crippling, top-down regulations imposed by broken laws, poor bureaucrat …
House Passes Health Care Reforms to Create Low-Cost Options for …
WebCustomized health benefits improve access to affordable care for all. May 5, 2021. Press Release. The Texas Public Policy Foundation applauded the Texas House for passing bipartisan legislation to open new options for those who are struggling to afford or don’t have health insurance. A decade after the passage of Obamacare, 63 percent of
A Brief History of Government Intervention in the U.S. Healthcare …
WebIn 21st century America, the concept of healthcare access has been conflated with health insurance coverage. Yet, this is a relatively new way of thinking. Less than 100 years ago, health insurance was not the primary conduit through which people arranged and paid for healthcare services. Key points: Employer-sponsored healthcare …
Eric Hargan to Work With Right on Healthcare
WebToday, the Texas Public Policy Foundation announced that former Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Eric Hargan will be the Distinguished Senior Fellow for Right on Healthcare, the foundation’s initiative concerning health care policy. Hargan, a former private health care attorney, was a key player in Operation Warp …
Pulling Back the Curtain on Pharmacy Benefit Managers
WebThe Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2022 would require PBMs to fully and completely disclose: “the cost, price, and reimbursement of prescription drugs to the health plans and pharmacies; all fees, markups, and discounts the PBM charges or imposes on health plans and pharmacies; or. the aggregate remuneration …
Price Transparency Will Lower Health Care Costs
WebA GAO report from several years ago found that maternity care in Boston could range from around $6500 to more than $21,000. And a recent project from the health care startup Turquoise Health shows that a diagnostic colonoscopy in Texas averages $2,527 but can range from $148 to $15,789 — a startling 100x multiplication.
Direct Primary Care
WebDirect primary care is an innovative way to provide care to patients. Patients and providers are given the opportunity to develop a stronger relationship in these arrangements, which can improve patient health in the long term. Policymakers should consider ways to encourage the growth of DPC, which could help improve patients’ …
TPPF: Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Proves to be a Poor …
WebMedicaid expansion was associated with improvements in self-reported health and greater financial peace of mind, with mixed evidence on physical health benefits. It was associated with a decline in mortality for those near retirement age. The bulk of the evidence suggests that targeted health programs, including those geared toward children
TPPF Announces Health and Family Policy Priorities for the 89th
WebThe Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center on Health and Families campaign announced its policy priorities for the 2025 89th Texas Legislative Session. The campaign focuses on improving systems and outcomes that affect patients, families, and children. CHF has worked on several successful reforms such as encouraging family …
Texas vs. California: The Uninsured
WebBased on the Census Bureau’s newly released report on national income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in 2012, the rates of those without health insurance declined nationally and in many states, including Texas and California.. Considering there is much noise in annual uninsured data, let us consider 2-year average data from 2009-2010 to …
The 5 Broken Promises of Obamacare
WebObamacare’s Five Broken Promises That Made Health Care Even Worse. Broken Promise #1 – You Can Keep Your Plan. Up to 9.3 million people lost their coverage during the first open enrollment period.; President Obama personally apologized for Americans losing health coverage.; Politifact named “If you like your health care plan, …
Price Transparency
WebWhile price transparency efforts are not sufficient by themselves to reform America’s healthcare system, it is a first step to help all parties involved rein in healthcare costs. The Facts. 9 out of 10 people believe all prices in healthcare should be disclosed, despite prices rarely ever being disclosed before services occur.
Medical Cost Sharing
WebThe Issue Medical cost-sharing organizations are an alternative to insurance for healthcare cost coverage. Instead of having access to a network of healthcare providers whose rates have been negotiated by insurance companies, cost-sharing organizations’ members pay cash prices to medical providers. The medical cost-sharing organization …
TPPF Challenges VIA To Public Debate
WebSan Antonio – Jeff Judson, President of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), today made public his March 7, 2000 challenge of a public debate with VIA during the week of April 3rd. TPPF has obtained commitments from three national transit experts for the event. VIA will be allowed to choose any three experts to
TPPF Opposes H.R. 3 Drug Pricing Plan as Burdensome and …
WebAUSTIN— Today the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Director of Right on Health Care David Balat offered the following statement about the proposed drug pricing bill – H.R. 3: “The high costs of medication in this country are at a critical point for American families. Inflation-adjusted per capita spending on retail prescription drugs between 2013 …
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