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Archives: Health / Articles
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States Set on Medicaid Reforms
Medicaid is one of the fastest-growing areas of federal expenditures and makes up close to a third of most state budgets. With Medicaid expansion costs ballooning past expectations, many…
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Patients Win as Wyoming Repeals Its Last CON Law
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement has inspired many policymakers to look at ways they can help Americans be healthier. While most of the MAHA policies focus on…
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Health Care Price Transparency Is Having a Michigan Moment
This week, Michigan moved closer to joining a growing number of states that have enacted healthcare price transparency policies on a bipartisan basis. SB 95, sponsored by Senator Jonathan…
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Medicaid Expansion: A Costly Gamble for the States
In addition to the regular federal funding for state Medicaid programs, the Affordable Care Act provided states that expanded their Medicaid populations with the funding to do so. While it…
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President Trump Can Fix Biden’s Price Fixing Fiasco
On his final weekday in office, former President Biden took one last parting shot at the healthcare industry by adding fifteen new drugs to the Medicare price negotiation list created…
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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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ALEC Policy Champions: Representatives Barhorst and Ferguson Deliver Price Transparency for Ohio Patients
Bringing more price transparency to healthcare is an Essential Policy Solution for ALEC in 2025. As healthcare costs continue to soar, we’ve seen states take the lead in ensuring…
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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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Tackling The Fentanyl Crisis & Supporting Families: An ALEC Women’s Leadership Episode
As part of ALEC’s Women Leadership Series, ALEC Federalism & International Relations Task Force and Homeland Security Task Force Senior Director Karla Jones and ALEC Health & Human…
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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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Medicaid Expansion Leads to State Budget Shortfalls: Jonathan Williams on At The Core
ALEC EVP of Policy and Chief Economist Jonathan Williams appeared on American Family Radio’s At The Core to explain how Medicaid expansion may not only lead…
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Medicaid Expansion Consuming State Budgets: Jonathan Williams on the Tim Jones & Chris Arps Show
Jonathan Williams, ALEC Chief Economist and Executive VP of Policy, joined The Tim Jones and Chris Arps Show on NewsTalk STL speaking on fiscal implications of Medicaid…
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The Tradeoffs of Medicaid Expansion: Jonathan Williams on American Radio Journal
In his latest American Radio Journal commentary, ALEC Executive Vice President of Policy and Chief Economist Jonathan Williams discussed the myths and facts of Medicaid expansion the leave…
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Big Wins for Health Care Freedom
An increasingly popular alternative to traditional health insurance, Health Care Sharing Ministries allow members to pool their money to help cover each other’s medical expenses. The Affordable Care Act…