Category: Health Care
Category: Health Care
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340B Program Should Be a Priority for DOGE
As efforts to make the federal government more efficient get underway, 340B is a great place to start. This federal program allows qualifying hospitals to buy drugs at steep discounts…
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Elections Will Have a Major Impact on Healthcare
Elections are just around the corner and all eyes are on the Presidential race. When it comes to health care issues, the divide between the candidates is more like a…
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Patients Win as States Recognize the Right to Try Cutting Edge Treatments
The right of patients, particularly terminal patients, to try experimental drugs and therapies has been a hotly contested issue. The Right to Try Act of 2017 was passed by Congress…
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ALEC Policy Champion: Rhode Island Senate Minority Leader Jessica de la Cruz Delivers Hospital Price Transparency
One of ALEC’s Essential Policy Solutions for 2024 is bringing more price transparency to health care. This week, we’d like to recognize policy champions who are working to make…
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ALEC Policy Champions: West Virginia Del. Michael Hornby and Sen. Michael Azinger Preserve Health Care Freedom
ALEC is honored to recognize policy champions who not only embody the ALEC principles of free markets, federalism, and limited government, but who also advance principled policy solutions in…
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340B Won’t Save Rural Hospitals Either
Rural hospitals across America are struggling financially. Low patient volumes and reimbursement rates and difficulty recruiting and retaining health care providers are just a few of the causes. Many…
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Ohio’s Opportunity for Health Care Price Transparency
Since passage of key reforms in the Ohio House, hospital price transparency is within reach for the Buckeye State. Transparency is important in all areas of our economy and…
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Alabama’s Hospital Crisis and The Medicaid Expansion Mirage: Brooklyn Roberts & Rep. Arnold Mooney in Yellowhammer News
Brooklyn Roberts, senior director of the Health and Human Services Task Force co-authored an op-ed with State Representative Arnold Mooney in…
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Medicaid Expansion Won’t Save Mississippi’s Rural Hospitals: Brooklyn Roberts in Magnolia Tribune
Brooklyn Roberts, senior director of the Health and Human Services Task Force authored an op-ed in The Magnolia Tribune explaining why Medicaid…
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Myths vs. Facts: Medicaid Expansion
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in 2010 made a number of changes to Medicaid, but the biggest and most controversial change gave states the option of expanding…
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Myths vs. Facts: 340B, Drug Discounts, and Price Fixing
What is 340B? There is significant controversy surrounding 340B, a program created by Congress in 1992 to help hospitals and certain other health care providers that serve large numbers of…
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How Medicaid Cuts Would Impact State Budgets: Brooklyn Roberts on Newstalk STL
Brooklyn Roberts, senior director of the Health and Human Services Task Force, spoke with Tim Jones and Chris Arps on Newstalk STL…
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Fitch Downgrade Could Mean Medicaid Cuts: Brooklyn Roberts and Thomas Savidge in The Wall Street Journal
Brooklyn Roberts, senior director of the Health and Human Services Task Force and Thomas Savidge, research director at ALEC’s Center for State Fiscal Reform recently co-authored an…
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Let’s Ditch The Masks And Make These Common-Sense COVID Changes Permanent, Instead: Brooklyn Roberts in The Daily Caller
ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Senior Director Brooklyn Roberts authored a guest column in the Daily Caller encouraging states to make some of their temporary…
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ALEC in Orange County Register: To empower patients, price transparency is key
Orange County Register By LISA B NELSON and BROOKLYN ROBERTS | PUBLISHED: May 16, 2022 Across the…
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Op-ed With The Virginian-Pilot: Transparency in Health Care Costs Gets a Boost in Virginia
Brooklyn Roberts, Senior Director of the Health and Services Task force at ALEC, recently placed an op-ed with The Virginian-Pilot, discussing a bipartisan win for Virginians. House Bill 481 might…
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Jonathan Williams and Brooklyn Roberts: Medicaid Expansion and the Provider Taxes Con Game
In their recent op-ed in Washington Examiner, ALEC Executive Vice President of Policy and Chief Economist Jonathan Williams and Health and Human Services Task Force Director Brooklyn Roberts explain…