Texas, Ohio Officials Use COVID-19 as an Excuse To Restrict Abortion
Plus: the pandemic in prisons, pushback on Trump's prescription for economic rebound, and more...
Health Care
Stop Looking for 'Leadership' During the COVID-19 Outbreak
If you really want politicians to do something helpful, ask them to stop "leading" and to get out of the way.
America Doesn't Have Enough Hospital Beds To Fight the Coronavirus. Protectionist Health Care Regulations Are One Reason Why.
Federal bureaucracy slowed America's response to the new coronavirus outbreak. Now state-level red tape is now poised to cause more problems.
Walmart's New Clinics Are a Free Market Experiment in Health Care Reform
No one will ever head to Walmart for a kidney transplant, but retail companies and profit-based clinics certainly can offer high-quality, lower-level services—and impose market discipline in a sector that sorely needs it.
Obamacare Returns to the Supreme Court - Yet Again
My take on today's decision to consider the Obamacare severability case.
State Regulations Let Hospitals Literally Veto New Competition. Here's How To Change That.
Certificate of need laws are on the books in 36 states, but they mostly serve as a way for hospitals to limit competition and keep prices high. State lawmakers should be dismantling them.
Bernie Sanders' New Favorite Medicare for All Study Has Major Problems
Medicare for All would cost far, far more than he says.
Psychiatric Hospitals Can Still Force Patients to Accept Shock Treatment. One Connecticut Patient Has Been Shocked 500 Times in Five Years.
Despite concerns about efficacy and side effects, courts are slow to act on behalf of patients who don’t want the treatment.
Fifth Circuit Declines to Rehear Obamacare Severability Case en banc
The ruling by a closely divided court leaves in place a December panel decision in this important case - at least for now.
Supreme Court Leaves Obamacare Trapped in Legal Limbo
The justices declined a Democratic request to fast track a decision on the law.
Sorry, Bernie Sanders: Taiwan's Single Payer System Isn't an Argument for Medicare for All
Taiwan’s system is less generous than the Sanders plan—yet it still struggles with cost control and access to care.
President Trump Rejects Premise of Justice Department Briefs in ACA Case
Once again, the President's Twitter feed contradicts the claims of his lawyers.
Congress Repealed Major Elements of Obamacare and Almost No One Noticed
The elimination of three health care taxes will increase the deficit by $373 billion.
Now That It's Toothless, Obamacare's Individual Mandate Is Unconstitutional
The shifting understanding of the requirement to buy health insurance elevates form above substance.
Impeachment Overshadows Obamacare Ruling
Plus: States sue to stop Equal Rights Amendment, French sex workers take prostitution laws to E.U. court of human rights, and more...
Fifth Circuit Sends Obamacare Severability Issue Back to Square One—But Not Quite
The appellate court remanded the most important issue in the case back to the district court. But its instructions will make it difficult for the trial judge to again rule that the entire Affordable Care Act must fall with the individual mandate.
BREAKING: Fifth Circuit Declares Individual Mandate Unconstitutional, Punts on Whether Rest of ACA Must Fall (Updated)
As if there wasn't enough going on this week, a federal appellate court issues a significant (and significantly flawed) ruling in the latest Obamacare challenge
Elizabeth Warren Gives Up on Medicare for All
By planning to pass single-payer in year three of her presidency, she’s acknowledging it will never happen at all.
Michigan Lawmakers Overturn a Bad Regulation Restricting Access to Cancer Treatments
They should scrap other Certificate of Need laws too.
Elizabeth Warren Doesn't Really Have a Plan to Pay for Medicare for All
The presidential candidate wanted a proposal that was airtight and easy to explain. Her plan is neither.
New York Might Compensate You for Your Kidney
But it's just health insurance, not cash
Elizabeth Warren's Fake Plan To Pay for Medicare for All
She hasn't come up with a plan to pay for single-payer. She's come up with a plan to let her claim she has a plan.
Elizabeth Warren Is Lying About Her Own Medicare Plan
Senator can't even accurately represent a plan whose numbers don't remotely add up
Elizabeth Warren Wants To Pay for Medicare for All With a $9 Trillion Tax That Will Hit the Middle Class
Warren says it’s not a tax. But what else would you call a requirement that employers send money to the federal government to finance a public program?
Medicare for All Is All Democrats Want To Talk About
Health care policy has dominated the early 2020 debates, and Obamacare has few defenders left.
On Medicare for All, Elizabeth Warren Is Fundamentally Dishonest
Her refusal to answer a question about taxes isn’t just dodgy; it’s designed to mislead.
Why the Failure of Vermont's Single-Payer Plan Is the Best Argument Against Medicare for All
An argument against Bernie Sanders' health care plan in The New York Times.
'Telecontraception' Secret-Shopper Study Shows Safety of Online Birth Control Services
"Adherence to guidelines among telecontraception vendors may be higher than it is among clinics that provide in-person visits," the authors write.
Walmart's Entry Into Health Care Could Be Hugely Disruptive in All the Best Ways
Perhaps the most radical aspect of the new Walmart Heath clinic? Consumers will know exactly what each service costs.
Michigan Health Care Regulators Just Restricted Access to Promising New Cancer Treatments
The state's largest hospital chain didn't want the competition.
Justin Trudeau Apologizes for Brownface Photo
Plus: A former judge loses a coaching job, Mayor Pete proposes "Medicare for All Who Want It," and more...
Andrew Yang Is the Anti–Elizabeth Warren
A progressive who wants to empower the little guy instead of big government
Elizabeth Warren Doesn't Want to Say How She'd Pay for Her Health Care Plan
Probably because it would involve raising middle-class taxes.
A Government-Run Health Insurance Plan Would Be Less Radical Than Medicare For All. But It Still Wouldn't Work.
The public option comes with plenty of pitfalls.
Democrats Are Retreating on Single Payer Health Care
It’s not just obstructionist Republicans who won't buy into Medicare for All—it’s Democrats themselves.
Planned Parenthood Succeeds in Getting Missouri's 8-Week Abortion Ban Blocked, but Rule Against Race- or Sex-Selective Abortion Remains in Place
Plus: North Carolina sues eight more e-cig companies, Tulsi Gabbard fails to meet debate threshold, and more...
Health Care Spending Is Out of Control
Health insurance doesn't just protect people from financial ruin. It insulates them from individual decisions about price and service quality.
Kamala Harris' Medicare for All Problem Is the Democratic Party's Medicare for All Problem
The California senator's history of flip-flops reveal the emptiness of her campaign—and looming problems for her party.
Prosecution of Unauthorized Abortion Pill Websites Begins
Ursula Wing sold abortion drugs to U.S. customers and is now charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.
New Jersey the Latest State to Allow Terminally Ill to Seek Aid in Dying
The state's assisted suicide law goes into effect today.
Medicare for All Is Defining the 2020 Democratic Race
A decade after Obamacare, the Democratic Party has embraced health care radicalism.
