Doing so can potentially save many thousands of lives. And moral objections to this practice are weak. The issues here are very similar to the longstanding debate over whether we should legalize organ markets.
In some states, the total is as high as 65 percent. It's a stunning statistic that might force policy makers to reconsider their approach to fighting the coronavirus.
We submitted another strange bedfellows amicus brief on severability in the Texas ACA case.
"I think you'll find that I'm the normal guy, the regular guy," Amash told HBO's Real Time host. "These other two guys are the buffoons."
A surgeon and policy analyst tallies up the steep costs of delaying and denying elective surgery and other care during the coronavirus pandemic.
We need to think of more targeted approaches to protect high-risk people and our freedoms.
The ruling says health insurers are owed money that Congress never appropriated.
"The more we lock down the economy, the more we harm those individuals who are most vulnerable, who don't have the cash cushions or the white-collar jobs that allow them to keep going."
An emergency room doctor talks about working the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Jeremy S. Faust talks about battling COVID-19 in the emergency room and how to safely reopen American society.
Pandemic patients get better care when medical professionals are free to work where they're needed. The same will undoubtedly be true of regular patients after COVID-19 has left our lives.
The point isn't only to provide reassurance to the public, but also to guide policymakers who have to make decisions on things such as opening or closing public schools, libraries, or playgrounds.
Plus: shutdown suits, the pantry police, and more...
The agency has hampered widespread COVID-19 testing and the production of both protective gear and hand sanitizer.
Global health group supports industry-supported initiative to promote gaming, educate players about COVID-19.
The agency's emphasis on caution over speed led to needless suffering and loss of life long before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The short-term rental service seeks 100,000 hosts to set space aside for those working to fight the pandemic.
It's time to free midwives from excessive regulation and make room for more home births.
Established makers of N95 masks are ramping up production as fast as they can. New manufacturers hoping to help meet demand are running into regulatory roadblocks.
Plus: the pandemic in prisons, pushback on Trump's prescription for economic rebound, and more...
If you really want politicians to do something helpful, ask them to stop "leading" and to get out of the way.
Federal bureaucracy slowed America's response to the new coronavirus outbreak. Now state-level red tape is now poised to cause more problems.
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.
My take on today's decision to consider the Obamacare severability case.
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.
Medicare for All would cost far, far more than he says.
Despite concerns about efficacy and side effects, courts are slow to act on behalf of patients who don’t want the treatment.
The ruling by a closely divided court leaves in place a December panel decision in this important case - at least for now.
The justices declined a Democratic request to fast track a decision on the law.
Taiwan’s system is less generous than the Sanders plan—yet it still struggles with cost control and access to care.
Once again, the President's Twitter feed contradicts the claims of his lawyers.
The elimination of three health care taxes will increase the deficit by $373 billion.
The shifting understanding of the requirement to buy health insurance elevates form above substance.
Plus: States sue to stop Equal Rights Amendment, French sex workers take prostitution laws to E.U. court of human rights, and more...
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.
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
By planning to pass single-payer in year three of her presidency, she’s acknowledging it will never happen at all.
They should scrap other Certificate of Need laws too.
The presidential candidate wanted a proposal that was airtight and easy to explain. Her plan is neither.
But it's just health insurance, not cash
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