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The United States boasts some of the best doctors in the world. U.S. companies produce dozens of new prescription drugs each year, innovative and lifesaving medical technologies, and groundbreaking therapies. They researched, created, and distributed hundreds of millions of COVID-19 shots for all who want them in less than a year. It’s no surprise, then, […]

by AFP When COVID-19 hit the United States, local officials closed most doctors’ and dentists’ offices to all but emergency visits. With tens of millions of Americans suddenly cut off from clinicians, policymakers rushed to relax regulations related to telehealth. These changes allowed quarantined Americans to get in touch with their providers virtually, via video […]

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.