Many of our current domestic disasters stem from a slate of legislation passed six decades ago: President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, which resulted in a disastrous centralization of power in the Washington bureaucracy and then sought to impose its destructive…
Employers and health researchers are evaluating the costs and side effects of Ozempic and Wegovy — trending weight loss drugs — as demand for these products soars. Ozempic, according to Axios reporter Caitlin Owens, is technically a Type 2 diabetes…
As drug prices rise, Congress has tossed about for a new villain in the healthcare industry — and it isn’t Big Pharma. Instead, there is an all-out campaign against pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Ads on YouTube, news sites, Pinterest, and…
Why is Congress continuing to help Big Pharma avoid accountability and suck every penny it can from Main Street? From July 2021 to July 2022, major pharmaceutical companies inflated the prices of over 1,000 drug products by over 31 percent…
Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the House Republicans have a tremendous opportunity to create a better American future. If they can successfully carry out the will of the American people, we will get to lower spending, less inflation, and eventually a…
Republicans and Democrats have been tripping over each other to tell voters how committed they are to making zero changes to Social Security and Medicare. Meanwhile, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees just confirmed yet again that within 10 years…
In recent years, drug prices have risen faster than inflation. Politicians are blaming this on businesses known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and, not surprisingly, are moving against PBMs with legislation. Yet the legislation will only make drug prices rise…
Budgets are about priorities. In the Biden administration’s new budget, its apparent priorities are marred by problems. Here’s the cheat-sheet version: Rather than containing explosive growth in spending, it would use a bunch of new taxes to wage class warfare….
The numbers of President Joe Biden’s budget, increasing federal spending from $6.5 trillion to $6.9 trillion, offend. More so do the letters. The word “equitable” appears 34 times, some variant of “fair” 57 times, “equity” 63 times, and “justice” 74…
