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The study found that over the duration of the pandemic, the costs of telehealth care fell, suggesting that in a post-pandemic world telehealth could help increase access to medical care without increasing costs.
Certificate-of-need laws, which forbid medical providers from purchasing new equipment, expanding their facilities, or establishing new locations without government permission, have taken a huge toll on Iowa’s health care system and its patients, especially during the pandemic, writes Americans for Prosperity Foundation-Iowa State Director Drew Klein in an op-ed for the Des Moines Register. Klein cites a new report from Americans […]
Certificate-of-need laws have slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in potential health care investment in Iowa, cost providers tens of thousands of dollars, and significantly delayed critical expansions in the health care industry, a new report by Americans for Prosperity Foundation finds. The report, authored by Kevin Schmidt, director of investigations at Americans for Prosperity Foundation, […]
Though not as far-reaching as H.R. 3, the reported plan would still reduce patient access to life saving medications
Michigan’s hospitals are suffering a crisis of capacity as the COVID-19 Delta variant sweeps the state. In part, writes Annie Patnaude, state director of Americans for Prosperity Foundation-Michigan, in an op-ed for The Detroit News, the state’s certificate-of-need laws are to blame. These laws, Patnaude writes, “forbid health care providers from expanding their facilities, purchasing new equipment — including hospital […]
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who has famously suggested that 75 is about the right age to die, recently took to the pages of Politico to argue that if we allow the government to control the price of prescription drugs, “we will still have robust innovation.” But the primary example the 64-year-old Dr. Emanuel uses to make […]
Putting Washington in charge of drug prices would stifle innovation and lead to fewer life-saving cures.
The new six-figure spot from the grassroots organization highlights how Congress’s price control plan will lead to as many as 342 fewer new cures.
Certificate-of-need laws result in higher health care costs, reduced access to important medical services, and worse patient outcomes, according to a new report from Americans for Prosperity Foundation. In Virginia, South Carolina, Michigan, and Iowa, the four states in which the effects of CON restrictions are covered in Permission to care: How certificate of need laws harm patients and stifle […]
