The Senate is debating S. J. Res. 52, a joint resolution that would stop the progress the Trump administration has made to help reduce the cost of premiums and provided more choices in the individual insurance marketplace. The resolution is being considered under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) and it would disapprove the guidance the […]
H.R. 3 would mutilate American biopharmaceutical development of innovative medicines that are tackling serious diseases.
The expansion of HRAs is expected to benefit more than 11 million employees and their families.
Democrats should learn what price controls REALLY mean.
The D.C. City Council could approve one of the highest soda taxes in the nation. On October 7, 2019, D.C. Councilmember Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1) introduced the Healthy Beverage Choices Act, which would place a 1.5 cent-per-ounce excise tax on sweetened beverages. The tax would be the third highest in the country, after Seattle, Washington and […]
His effort to enhance Medicare is commendable.
Citizens who purchased health insurance on the Maryland Health Connection, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, marketplace exchange,saw their premiums drop an average of 13 percent in 2019 and will see an average 10 percent decrease starting January 2020. The 2019 decrease was the first time since ACA was implemented that […]
Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) released the official summary and backgrounder of H.R. 3, “The Lower Cost Drugs Now Act,” although as of this posting, there is no bill language. It would exert so much government authority over the pharmaceutical industry that it would equal anything that communist and socialist leaders in other countries […]
The culprits who are really ripping off Americans are countries that utilize price controls and draft off U.S. funded research.
Yesterday, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) banned flavored e-cigarettes, making it the first state in the nation to do so. The governor’s actions follow closely the actions of San Francisco where city officials banned the sale of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), or e-cigarettes, that have not received approval by the Food and Drug Administration […]
