We are caught in the Health Care Spending Trap: the more we spend on health care, the fewer resources (public and private) are available to fund social determinants of health.
Click Here to ContinueGiving patients control of their care and coverage should be the primary focus of Republican health care reform. And the way to do this is by making patients the customer by allowing them to take charge of their health care dollars.
Click Here to ContinueThe federal government should take a lesson from COVID-19 and establish an “Operation Warp Speed” for the development of a “vaccine” against age-related chronic disease.
Click Here to ContinueThe United States faces a human and financial crisis of chronic illness. Every year, one-fifth of our economy – about $3.7 trillion – is lost to chronic diseases such as heart disease, dementia, diabetes, and cancer.
A new study from Ohio State University looked at 60 years of health data from thousands of people and their children to analyze trends in mortality and bodyweight.
Click Here to ContinueIt is time for a new treatment plan for what ails American health care, one that gets to the root cause of the problem and that both parties can unite around. It is not lack of coverage that is causing health care costs to rise. Instead, it is high health care prices and high health care demand.
Click Here to ContinueThe likely prospect of divided government in Washington means that major health legislation is unlikely anytime soon. But this does not mean big insurance companies can count on the status quo for long. Three interlocking trends are conspiring to dramatically reduce the role of big insurance companies in the American health care system.
Click Here to ContinuePresident Trump has taken on the medical industrial complex—insurance companies, hospital systems, and drug manufacturers—to help middle-income American families. Because of the actions of the Trump Administration, American patients, consumers, and employers will soon have price information in advance of receiving medical care.
Click Here to ContinueThanks to President Trump and his 1,000 step approach on health reform, we are on our way to a transparent, patient-focused, health care system that delivers much better care and coverage at much lower costs.
Click Here to ContinuePresident Trump has made it clear that he wants to make Republicans the “party of health care.”
He has issued several executive orders that have made more affordable health coverage options available to Americans, both by stabilizing the broken Obamacare individual market and by giving Americans more alternative health plan choices.