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5 steps toward a fresh approach to health care reform

WEBHere are five fresh principles for health care reform that can resonate across party lines. Address root causes, not just symptoms. One of the biggest reasons major Washington-led health care reforms have failed to lower health care costs is because they focus on health insurance instead of health care, and very little on health

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To Make Health Care Affordable, Give Patients Choices

WEBHealth care affordability was recently listed as a top issue for voters in 2024 alongside inflation, with eight in ten and nine in ten wanting presidential candidates to talk about the issues, respectively. In 2023, family health insurance premiums rose to nearly $24,000—a 7 percent increase from 2022—and one in five adults with insurance

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Health care is a moral issue first, economic second. Here’s what

WEBThe House Republican Commitment to America builds on these successes with a strong set of health care principles that would lead to better health outcomes and more affordable care and coverage. Similarly, the America First Agenda seeks to put patients and doctors back in charge of our health care system which is supported by 86 …

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Revolutionizing rural healthcare: The untapped power of virtual …

WEBThis has enabled health education and interventions typically provided in person to start at the moment they are needed, without compromising care due to fear of high costs, deductibles, or matters of convenience. FINISH READING ON WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM . F share on facebook. L share on twitter.

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Preserving Access to Rural Cardiac Care Bobby Jindal

WEBWhen it comes to their health care, America’s 46 million rural residents want access to basic care within their own communities. Inflation, poor fiscal performance, and a lack of political leadership threaten that access. More than 500 U.S. hospitals are now at risk for closure, impeding access to care in many of these towns.

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A Revolution Is Coming in Heart-Disease Treatment

WEBby Bobby Jindal and Neil M. Gheewala. A cancer-care revolution that started in the 1980s is spreading to cardiac care. In the 1980s, cancer was treated almost exclusively in hospital settings.

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Congress Can Help Reduce Surprise Medical Bills Bobby Jindal

WEBEnforcing existing price transparency laws would give consumers more control over their personal health care expenditures, create more free market choices, and encourage patients to receive their outpatient care in more efficient and affordable settings. ASCs have been a major disrupter to the status quo.

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What Are the GOP’s Views on Health Care

WEBOpposition to ObamaCare and a single-payer health system kept Republicans united but unprepared to act when they controlled the White House, House and Senate in 2017. The GOP repealed the individual mandate penalty, health-insurance tax, medical-device tax and Cadillac tax, but the Affordable Care Act remains largely intact.

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Four paradoxes of health care reform: Conservatives can take …

WEBHowever, they also show that conservative health care solutions, such as price transparency and increasing choice and competition to lower prices, are popular. This dynamic has led to a conventional wisdom among the center-right health care reform community – that Americans will come around to trusting conservatives if we talk more …

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Republicans Can Lead on Healthcare Reform Bobby Jindal

WEBAdvancing conservative health-policy principles at the state level—where they have majority control in 30 legislatures—allows Republicans to advance federalism while also strengthening consumer-based healthcare. While Democrats fight to shift costs to taxpayers and expand government programs, state Republicans can show that a

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Texas Provides a Model for Conservative Healthcare Reform

WEBThe Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that the federal government couldn’t force states to expand Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act.

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Competition cures high drug costs Bobby Jindal

WEBHowever, they will threaten the development of future cures and harm patient health . The Biden administration recently announced the first drugs subject to price controls under the Inflation Reduction Act. Federal bureaucrats will determine what prices pharmaceutical companies can charge Medicare . If companies refuse to “negotiate,” the

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After 20 successful years, HSAs in need of modernization

WEBIn addition to creating the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit, the bill created the Health Savings Account (HSA). Health Savings Accounts are sometimes criticized as being a tool for the wealthy, but in fact, 78% of the over 31 million Americans with an HSA have a household income of less than $100,000. That’s because the HSA …

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The Danger of Expanding Medicare Bobby Jindal

WEBModerate Democrats like Sens. John Breaux of Louisiana and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska once favored gradually raising the Medicare eligibility age to help ensure the program’s financial sustainability.

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Bobby Jindal in the Wall Street Journal: How the GOP Can Win on …

WEBHow the GOP Can Win on Health Care Voters don’t want the left’s radical plans, but they may settle for them if the right doesn’t offer alternatives. Democratic presidential candidates are repeating one of President Obama’s worst mistakes, one that arguably cost Democrats the 2010 midterms. Rather than focusing on

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Mammograms Can Promote Heart Health Bobby Jindal

WEBYet a standard feature of women’s health—mammography—offers a promising gateway for cardiovascular screening through breast arterial calcification, or BAC. BAC consists of visible deposits of calcium in breast arteries, which can be seen on mammograms and should prompt doctors to screen for heart disease. Since the X-ray …

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Affordable prescription drugs need bipartisan patent reform

WEBBy Bobby Jindal and Charlie Katebi. Like food, gas, and other essential products, the public is now paying more for prescription drugs than ever before.

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Attention, policymakers: Medicare Advantage enrollees love their

WEBTo Make Health Care Affordable, Give Patients Choices. continue reading. In The News. The root causes of our illiberal higher education system. continue reading. In The News. Biden Sabotages Medicare Advantage. continue reading. In The News. Attention, policymakers: Medicare Advantage enrollees love their coverage and.

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Lawmakers’ Latest ‘Infrastructure’ Scheme Is a Takeover of …

WEBB y this point, it should surprise no one that, when lawmakers in Washington propose one spending item, they are speaking about another — and often several — entirely.. So it was with the last few iterations of the so-called “infrastructure” package, which had markedly little to do with infrastructure and much to do with lawmakers’ …

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Ending the COVID-19 emergency Bobby Jindal

WEBUnless renewed, the public health emergency order should end on Sunday, and the national emergency declaration expires on March 1. Policymakers need to relinquish emergency powers at the end of the surge and plot a sustainable path forward. Dr. Monica Gandhi, a University of California, San Francisco infectious disease expert, …

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Debt ceiling fight: Republican Medicaid plan shows how to make …

WEBBy Bobby Jindal and Newt Gingrich Republicans already proved work requirements are smart. Medicaid plan lowers debt, improves health. The House GOP’s Limit, Save, Grow Act to raise the debt ceiling contains within it a vitally important reform — work requirements for able-bodied adults to qualify for Medicaid.

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News Bobby Jindal

WEBBy Bobby Jindal and Newt Gingrich These 5 fresh principles for health care reform will resonate across party lines As the cost of living continues to be a crucial concern for voters, there’s an urgent need for candidates to present viable solutions for making health care both affordable and accessible. Here are five fresh principles […]

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